Bermejo (city)
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 Church in Bermejo |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 29,459 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 26 | ||
| height | 419 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0202-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 22 ° 44 ′ S , 64 ° 21 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Aniceto Arce | ||
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 Climate diagram Bermejo |
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Bermejo is a medium- sized town in the Tarija Department in the southern part of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Bermejo is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Bermejo and the largest city in the province of Aniceto Arce . It is located on the border with Argentina on the right bank of the Río Bermejo at an altitude of 419 m .
geography
Bermejo is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the transition to the Gran Chaco , which stretches across northwest Paraguay , northeast Argentina and southeast Bolivia. The climate is subtropical with hot humid summers and moderately warm and dry winters.
The annual average temperature is 21 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate between 14 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C in December and January (see Bermejo climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 950 mm, with a six-month dry season from May to October and a wet season from December to March with more than 150 mm monthly precipitation.
population
The population of the city of Bermejo has almost tripled in the past 35 years:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 13,022 | census |
| 1992 | 21,394 | census |
| 2001 | 26,059 | census |
| 2012 | 29,459 | census |
Transport network
Bermejo is located at a distance of 210 kilometers by road southeast of Tarija , the capital of the department.
From Bermejo to the northwest, the paved road Ruta 1 leads via Padcaya and Valle de Concepción to the capital Tarija. The Ruta 1 traverses from there in a northerly direction the entire Bolivian Altiplano and performs on the cities Potosí , Oruro and El Alto to Desaguadero at the Peruvian border.
Bermejo is also connected to the northeast via the Ruta 33 to Caraparí and the local section of the Ruta 29 to Campo Pajoso with the lowland highway Ruta 9 , which from Yacuiba in the south via the metropolis of Santa Cruz all the way north to Guayaramerín in the Beni lowlands the Brazilian border.
To the south, Bermejo is connected on the Argentine side via the Ruta Nacional 50 with the northern Argentine cities of Aguas Blancas and Pichanal .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Relief map of the Bermejo region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 1.15 MB)
- Municipio Bermejo - General Maps No. 60202
- Municipio Bermejo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 265 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )