Cobija (Bolivia)

Cobija
Cobija city center
Basic data
Residents (state)	42,849 pop. (2012 census)
rank	Rank 20
height	205  m
Post Code	09-0101-0100-1001
Telephone code	(+591) 842
Coordinates	11 ° 1 ′  S , 68 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 11 ° 1 ′  S , 68 ° 45 ′  W
Cobija
politics
Department	Pando
province	Nicolás Suarez Province

Cobija is the capital of the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

The university town of Cobija is located in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Cobija in the province of Nicolás Suárez , about 600 kilometers north of La Paz on the border with Brazil . Cobija is located at an altitude of about 205  m on the border river Río Acre opposite the Brazilian city of Brasiléia , with which it is connected via the Ponte Binacional Wilson Pinheiro .

geography

Cobija is located in the southwestern part of the Amazon basin and is characterized by a humid tropical climate. The temperature fluctuations are low, both during the day and during the year. The humidity is high, so that there is repeated heavy rain for much of the year .

Cobija
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     196   31 25th     205   31 22nd     180   32 21st     157   31 21st     61   29 19th     25th   30th 17th     18th   30th 16     30th   33 18th     68   35 20th     130   32 21st     185   31 21st     191   31 21st Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Cobija Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 31.2 30.8 31.8 31.2 29.2 29.9 30.2 33.4 34.5 31.9 31.4 31.2 O 31.4 Min. Temperature (° C) 24.9 21.5 21.1 20.8 18.9 16.8 15.8 17.7 19.8 20.5 20.9 21.0 O 20th Precipitation ( mm ) 196 205 180 157 61 25th 18th 30th 68 130 185 191 Σ 1,446 Humidity ( % ) 85 89 89 89 88 85 83 80 79 84 86 86 O 85.2 Source: wetterkontor.de

The annual average temperature is 25 ° C, the monthly values ​​fluctuate between 23.5 ° C and 26.5 ° C. The annual precipitation of around 1750 mm is more than double the precipitation in Central Europe. Only the months of June to August are characterized by a dry season , in which the small amount of precipitation evaporates quickly, from November to March an average of more than 200 mm of rain falls.

history

Cobija was founded in 1906 by Coronel Enrique Cornejo under the name Bahía and was given its current name in 1908 in memory of the former Bolivian port city of Cobija (Lamar) on the Pacific, which has belonged to Chile since the Saltpeter War . Cobija experienced a heyday as a location for the rubber industry in the 1940s . With the collapse of the rubber boom, Cobija also declined and has only seen a renewed upswing in the past few decades.

Cobija is currently an important trading center in the region. The entire center of the city consists of shops and markets selling consumer goods. The Bolivian government set up a special customs zone around Cobija to promote trade in this remote region, so that many goods can be offered much cheaper than in Brazil. For this reason, many of the buyers from the neighboring country come to Cobija for larger purchases and the migration from other places within Bolivia (especially La Paz) to Cobija has increased significantly.

population

The population of Cobija has increased more than fivefold in the past two decades. Current estimates even assume a current population of over 60,000 and a population growth of 8 to 10% per year.

year	Residents	source
1992	10 001	census
2001	20 820	census
2012	42 849	census

Transport network

Cobija has an airport and is across the highway Ruta 13 to El Triangulo (El Choro) in Beni Department , connected, which is not always passable in the rainy season with the rest of the country.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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.  
2. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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.  
3. ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.  

Web links

Commons : Cobija  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bolivian Embassy in Germany - basic data
• Cobija region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 5.64 MB)
• Municipio Puerto Rico - General Maps No. 90101
• Municipio Cobija - detailed map and population data (PDF; 229 kB) ( Spanish )
• Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )
• Boliviacontact.com - Basic data and tourism ( Spanish )