Cerro Grande (Guarayos)
| Cerro Grande | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 327 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 193 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1501-0300-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 15 ° 39 ′ S , 63 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Guarayos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Urubichá |
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Cerro Grande is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Cerro Grande is a village in the canton of Santa María in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Ascención de Guarayos in the province of Guarayos . Cerro Grande is located at an altitude of 193 m on the right bank of the Río San Pablo , a border river between the Departamento Beni and the Departamento Santa Cruz , which flows on to the village of Puente San Pablo and flows 712 kilometers downstream into the Río Iténez .
geography
Cerro Grande is located in the Moxos plain ( Spanish : Llanos de Moxos), a more than 100,000 km² flood savannah in the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm tropics .
The mean average temperature of the region is around 25 ° C (see Urubichá climate diagram) and varies only marginally between 22 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from October to February. The annual precipitation is about 1,150 mm, with a weak dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 45 mm, and a significant humidity period from November to March with monthly precipitation between 140 and 200 mm.
Transport network
Cerro Grande is 346 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 9 leads together with the Ruta 4 first in an easterly direction via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande and separates fourteen kilometers later in Pailón . From here the Route 9 continues north via Ascención de Guarayos , San Pablo and Santa María de Guarayos to Cerro Grande and after a total of 1175 kilometers it reaches Guayaramerín on the border with Brazil .
population
The population of the village has decreased over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 413 | census |
| 2012 | 327 | census |
The most important idiom in the Municipio Ascención is Spanish , but besides Quechua , Guaraní and Aymara, 27.5 percent of the population speak other indigenous languages . ( 2001 )
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 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
- Relief map of the Ascencion de Guarayos region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.91 MB)
- Municipio Ascención de Guarayos - General Maps No. 71501
- Municipio Ascención de Guarayos - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.85 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )