Cañada Oruro

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Cañada Oruro
Basic data
height 279  m
Coordinates 21 ° 40 ′  S , 62 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 21 ° 40 ′  S , 62 ° 27 ′  W
Cañada Oruro (Bolivia)
Cañada Oruro
Cañada Oruro
politics
Department Tarija
province Gran Chaco Province
climate
Climate diagram Villamontes
Climate diagram Villamontes

Cañada Oruro (also: Hito BR-94 ) is a border crossing in the Tarija Department in the extreme southeast of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Cañada Oruro is a border town in Villamontes in the Gran Chaco province . The village is located at an altitude of 279  m in the Bolivian Gran Chaco on the course of the Cañada Oruro on the border with neighboring Paraguay .

geography

Cañada Oruro is located in the humid tropics , the climate is semi-humid .

The annual average temperature is 25 ° C (see Villamontes climate diagram), the monthly values ​​fluctuate between almost 20 ° C in June / July and 29 ° C in December / January. The long-term average annual precipitation is almost 700 mm and falls mainly in the months of December to March, where monthly values ​​of significantly more than 100 mm are reached. From May to September there is a dry season in which there is hardly any significant rainfall.

Transport network

Cañada Oruro is 378 kilometers east of Tarija , the capital of the department.

To get from Tarija to Cañada Oruro, first follow the Ruta 1 highway , which leads from Tarija in a south-easterly direction. After eight kilometers, the Ruta 11 road branches off to the east, reaching the town of Villamontes after 243 kilometers via Junacas Sur , Entre Ríos and Palos Blancos . The paved route 11 then heads east via Ibibobo to Cañada Oruro , the border station on the border with Paraguay .

From Mayor Infante Rivarola on the Paraguayan side, a road leads in a north-easterly direction to the Comunidad Indígena La Patria , from there the road PY-09 leads to Filadelfia , the capital of the Boquerón department , and from there to Paraguay's capital Asunción . From Asunción there is a connection to the international Atlantic trade via the Río Paraguay , therefore the Ruta 11 via Cañada Oruro is an important traffic artery for future foreign traffic in inland Bolivia.

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