El Palmar (Ichilo)
| El Palmar | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 945 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 298 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0403-0105-9001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 22 ′ S , 64 ° 2 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Ichilo Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní |
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El Palmar is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
El Palmar is the seventh largest town in the municipality of Yapacaní in the province of Ichilo . El Palmar is located seventeen kilometers west of Yapacaní , at an altitude of 298 m on the banks of the Río Vibora, which flows here in a north-westerly direction and dries up a few kilometers downstream in a wetland.
geography
El Palmar lies to the east of the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental on the edge of the Bolivian lowlands.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 24 ° C (see climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní) and fluctuates only marginally between almost 21 ° C in June and July and a good 26 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is about 1800 mm, with monthly precipitation between 60 mm in July and average maximum values of 200 to 300 mm in the summer months from December to February.
Transport network
El Palmar is at a distance of 144 kilometers by road northwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
El Palmar is on the 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway , which crosses the entire country from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border in a west-east direction and leads to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border. It leads via Cochabamba and Villa Tunari to El Palmar and on via Yapacaní , Santa Cruz and Roboré to Puerto Suárez. The road is completely paved from the Chilean border to Pailón, only further on is it unpaved.
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 238 | census |
| 2012 | 583 | census |
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
Web links
- Relief map of the Puerto Grether region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio Yapacaní - General Maps No. 70403
- Municipio Yapacaní - detailed map and population data (PDF 2.04 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Yapacaní - Information from the Santa Cruz Departmental Government ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )