Campo Grande (Yacuiba)
| Campo Grande | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2246 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 185 | ||
| height | 652 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0301-0101-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | +591 | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 58 ′ S , 63 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yacuiba |
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Campo Grande is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Campo Grande is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yacuiba in the Gran Chaco province . The city is located at an altitude of 652 m, twelve kilometers north of the Bolivian- Argentine border. Six kilometers west of the village, the mountain range of Serranía Aguaragüe runs in a north-south direction , which here reaches heights of more than 1200 m.
geography
Campo Grande is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the lowlands of the subtropical 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 almost 22 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate between 15 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C in January (see Yacuiba climate diagram). Annual precipitation is just under 1100 mm, with a four-month dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm and a humidity period from December to March with 160–200 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Campo Grande is located at a distance of 267 kilometers by road southeast of Tarija , the capital of the department, directly at Yacuiba Airport .
To get to Tarija, follow the Ruta 9 road for a few kilometers from Campo Grande to the village of Campo Pajoso . There the Ruta 29 branches off to the northwest and after 83 kilometers via Caraparí reaches the village of Palos Blancos . The road meets Ruta 11 here , which , coming from the border with Paraguay , heads west via Villamontes and Palos Blancos to Tarija, where it meets Ruta 1 eight kilometers before Tarija . Via this route 1 , Yacuiba is then connected to the large metropolises of the highlands, with Potosí , Oruro , El Alto and La Paz .
If you follow the Ruta 9 further north via Campo Pajoso , the entire Bolivian lowland opens up on this highway, because the Ruta 9 leads via the departmental capitals Santa Cruz and Trinidad to Guayaramerín on the border with Brazil in the extreme northeast of the country.
population
The population of the village has doubled in the past decade alone:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | . | no data |
| 2001 | 1 036 | census |
| 2012 | 2 246 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Yacuiba 17.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 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.
- ↑ INE social data Tarija 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map 6828-II of the El Palmar region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 1.56 MB)
- Relief map of the Villamontes region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.68 MB)
- Municipio Yacuiba - General Maps No. 60301
- Municipio Yacuiba - detailed map and population data (PDF; 407 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )