El Dorado (Cabezas)
| El Dorado | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1924 population (2012 census) | ||
| height | 396 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0703-0508-1006 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 28 ′ S , 63 ° 3 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Cordillera Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cabezas |
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El Dorado (also Colonia Menonita El Dorado ) is an areal settlement in the Santa Cruz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
El Dorado is the fourth largest town in the municipality of Cabezas in the Cordillera province . The village is located at an altitude of 396 m between the national highway Ruta 9 in the west and five kilometers west of the Río Grande .
geography
El Dorado is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental in the area of the subtropical climate and is characterized by a six-month dry season that extends from May to October.
The average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C (see Cabeza's climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 20 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 800 mm, the wettest months are January and February with 130 mm and the driest months July and August with less than 20 mm in the long-term average.
Transport network
El Dorado is 103 kilometers by road south of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 9 leads south via Mora via Cabezas , Abapó , Ipitá and Villamontes to Yacuiba on the Bolivian border with Argentina . Directly in Mora, a dirt road branches off in an easterly direction, which after nineteen kilometers reaches the municipality of El Dorado .
population
The population of the village has almost tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 668 | census |
| 2012 | 1 924 | census |
The settlement is primarily populated with families of the Mennonite religious community , who have settled in Bolivia, especially in the Santa Cruz department.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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 Vallegrande region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.75 MB)
- Municipio Cabezas - General Maps No. 70703
- Municipio Cabezas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.32 MB) ( Spanish )
- Santa Cruz Department - Social data (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )