El Puente (Guarayos)
| El Puente | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2379 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 169 | ||
| height | 299 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1503-0101-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 17 ′ S , 62 ° 57 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Guarayos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Ramón |
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El Puente is a country town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
El Puente is the central place of the municipality El Puente in the province of Guarayos in the north-western part of the Santa Cruz department. The city is located at an altitude of 299 m seven kilometers east of the north flowing Río San Julián , which in its further course bears the name Río Pablo and Río Itonomas and drains to the Río Iténez .
geography
El Puente is located in the Moxos plain ( 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 about 25 ° C (see climate diagram San Ramón), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly over the course of the year between 21 and 22 ° C in the winter months of June and July with strong cold south winds, and 26 to 27 ° C in October until March. The annual amount of precipitation averages around 1000 mm over the long term, which falls mainly in the wet season from November to March, while the arid months from July to September show monthly values between 25 and 50 mm.
Transport network
El Puente is 253 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalt national road Ruta 4 leads 47 kilometers in an easterly direction via Cotoca to Pailón . Here it meets Ruta 9 , which in a northerly direction via Los Troncos , San Julián and San Ramón reaches El Puente after 206 kilometers . The Ruta 9 then continues via Ascención de Guarayos and Trinidad in the far northeast of the country to Guayaramerín on the Brazilian border.
population
The population of the village has increased roughly threefold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 105 | census |
| 2001 | 2 142 | census |
| 2012 | 2,379 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been promoted by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua people, in the municipality of El Puente 22.4 percent of the population speak Quechua .
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.
- ↑ INE social data 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Concepción region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 3.05 MB)
- Municipio El Puente - General Maps No. 71503
- Municipio El Puente - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.52 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )