Cachuelita Bajo
| Cachuelita Bajo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 122 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 226 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0102-0100-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 16 ′ S , 68 ° 44 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Nicolás Suarez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Porvenir |
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Cachuelita Bajo (also: Cachuelita Baja ) is a town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Cachuelita Bajo is a village in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Porvenir in the province of Nicolás Suárez and is located at an altitude of 226 m . The village is located nine kilometers by road southwest of Porvenir , the central city of the district, on the left, northern bank of the Río Tahuamanu , which in its further course bears the name Río Orthon and flows into the Río Beni .
geography
Cachuelita Bajo is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin , northeast of the foothills of the Peruvian Cordillera Oriental in the tropical rainy climate of the equatorial zone .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C and fluctuates only insignificantly during the year and during the day, only in the dry winter months from June to August it is slightly lower due to the nocturnal heat radiation with open cloud cover (see Porvenir climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 1,900 mm and during the rainy season shows monthly values between 150 and 300 mm for more than half of the year, only in the short dry season from June to August does the precipitation drop to monthly values below 50 mm.
Transport network
Cachuelita Bajo is located 42 kilometers by road south of Cobija , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cobija the paved road Ruta 13 leads south to Porvenir and from there further east over another 337 kilometers to El Triangulo in the Beni department , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 8 from Guayaramerin to Rurrenabaque .
Porvenir is also the starting point of the more than 900 kilometers long Ruta 16 , which leads via Cachuelita Bajo to Chivé and, once the extension south of Chivé has been completed, will open up the entire western lowlands in the border area with Peru .
population
The town's population has doubled over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 61 | census |
| 2012 | 122 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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 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
- Cobija region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 5.64 MB)
- Municipio Porvenir - General Maps No. 90102
- Municipio Porvenir - detailed map and population data (PDF; 376 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )