Campo Pajoso
| Campo Pajoso | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1012 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 617 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0301-0100-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) 468 | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 54 ′ S , 63 ° 38 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yacuiba |
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Campo Pajoso is a town in the Tarija Department in southern Bolivia near the border with Argentina .
Location in the vicinity
Campo Pajoso is a municipality in the southwestern part of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yacuiba in the Gran Chaco province . The place is at an altitude of 617 m on the railway line between the cities of Santa Cruz in Bolivia and Salta in Argentina. The nearest towns are Palmar Chico three kilometers north of Campo Pajoso and San Isidro with the airport of Yacuiba eight kilometers south of the town. To the west of the village, at a distance of five kilometers, the mountain range of Serranía Aguaragüe stretches from north to south , which here reaches heights of over 1200 m.
geography
Campo Pajoso is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the lowlands of the subtropical Gran Chaco , which extends over northwest Paraguay . Extends 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 Pajoso is 327 kilometers southeast of Tarija , the capital of the department, and thirteen kilometers north of the border town of Yacuiba.
From Tarija, the Ruta 11 trunk road leads east over the cities of Entre Ríos and Palos Blancos for 250 kilometers to Villamontes . There it meets the north-south running Ruta 9 , which leads south via Sachapera and Palmar Chico to Campo Pajoso and further via Yacuiba to the Argentine border.
In Campo Pajoso the route 29 branches off to the west, cuts through the Serranía Aguaragüe and after 23 kilometers reaches the village of Caraparí . From there the Ruta 29 continues north to Palos Blancos , at the same time the Ruta 33 leads from Caraparí all the way south to Bermejo on the Argentine border.
population
The population of the village has increased by around a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 772 | census |
| 2001 | 631 | census |
| 2012 | 1 012 | census |
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 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.
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 municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )