Cachuela Esperanza
| Cachuela Esperanza | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 982 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 118 m | ||
| Post Code | 08-0202-0300-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 10 ° 32 ′ S , 65 ° 36 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Beni | ||
| province | Province of Vaca Díez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Riberalta |
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Cachuela Esperanza is a town in the Beni department in the lowlands of the South American landlocked state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Cachuela Esperanza ("Rapids of Hope") is the central location of the canton of Cachuela Esperanza in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Guayaramerín in the province of Vaca Díez . The place is located at an altitude of 118 m on the right bank on the rapids of the Río Beni , 30 kilometers before it joins the Río Mamoré to the Río Madeira .
history
The settlement on the rapids of the Beni was discovered in 1846 by the Bolivian scientist José Agustín. Attracted by the rubber boom, Nicolás Suárez crossed the Andes with his six brothers in 1872 and established the center of his Bolivian rubber empire in Cachuela Esperanza , with branches in Acre , Manaus , Belém and London . He had a theater and tennis courts built here, a luxury hotel with a view of the rapids and a modern hospital. The first X-ray machine in Bolivia was located here, and the millionaires from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo were flown in by seaplane . When rubber was gradually replaced by synthetic rubber compounds in the 1920s, the importance of Cachuela Esperanza also declined , and with the Bolivian Revolution of 1952, the artificial jungle city finally sank into insignificance.
geography
Cachuela Esperanza is located in the Bolivian lowlands near the border with the Republic of Brazil . The region has a tropical, hot and humid climate all year round .
The annual average temperature is 27.1 ° C (see climate diagram Riberalta), with the monthly average temperatures between June / July at a good 25 ° C and September / October at a good 28 ° C only slightly different. The annual precipitation is almost 2000 mm and is therefore more than twice as high as the precipitation in Central Europe. Highs of almost 300 mm in the months of December to February contrasted with low values of under 50 mm in June / August.
population
The population of Cachuela Esperanza developed from 1992 to 2012 as follows:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 697 | census |
| 2001 | 1,364 | census |
| 2012 | 982 | census |
Personalities
The most outstanding personality of the place in the past was the rubber king Nicolas Suárez Callaú, next to the tin barons Patiño , Hochschild and Aramayo one of the most influential industrialists in Bolivia. In 1925, Cachulea Esperanza was the birthplace of Eugen Gomringer , son of a Swiss and a Bolivian, who is considered the father of concrete poetry .
Transport network
Cachuela Esperanza is 660 kilometers by road north of Trinidad , the capital of the Beni department.
From Cachuela Esperanza a dirt road leads in a south-easterly direction, crosses the Río Yata and after 43 kilometers through tropical forest and open bushland reaches the town of Guayaramerín on the left bank of the Río Mamoré. Guayaramerín is the end point of the 1631 kilometer long highway Ruta 9 , which begins in the south on the border with Argentina at Yacuiba and leads via Trinidad and San Ramón to Guayaramerín.
Rapids
The huge rapids at Cachuela Esperanza interrupt shipping on the Río Beni 30 kilometers above its mouth, and in the dry season tidal waves can reach heights of up to 8 meters here. An agreement between the state governments of Bolivia and Brazil in 1984 put forward plans to tame the rapids by building a hydroelectric power station and generating electricity for export to Brazil, but this project has been suspended to this day.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 February 15, 2017 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 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 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.
Web links
- Cachuela Esperanza region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.48 MB)
- Municipio Guayaramerín - General Maps No. 80202
- Municipio Guayaramerín - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.11 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Beni - Social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 3.82 MB) ( Spanish )