El Sena
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| Full name | El Sena | ||
| Residents (state) | 2587 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 171 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0303-0100-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 29 ′ S , 67 ° 15 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Madre de Dios province | ||
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 Climate diagram Sena |
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El Sena (also just: Sena ) is a town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
El Sena is the central place of the Municipio Sena in the province of Madre de Dios and is located at an altitude of 171 m on the right, southern bank of the Río Manupare in the immediate vicinity of its confluence with the Río Madre de Dios , which is 224 kilometers downstream Riberalta united with the Río Beni .
geography
The town of El Sena is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin in the northern part of the country, about 120 kilometers as the crow flies south of the border with Brazil.
The mean average temperature of the region is 27 ° C and fluctuates only marginally between a good 25 ° C in June / July and 28 ° C from September to November (see Sena climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 1,750 mm, with a pronounced dry season from June to August with monthly precipitation below 35 mm, and a humidity period from December to March with monthly precipitation of more than 200 mm.
Transport network
El Sena is located at a distance of 250 kilometers by road southeast of Cobija , the capital of the department, at an important river crossing.
El Sena is located on the 370 km long national road Ruta 13 , which leads east from Cobija to El Triangulo (El Choro) , from where the rest of the Bolivian national road network can be reached. From Cobija the Ruta 13 crosses Porvenir , Puerto Rico , where it crosses the Río Orthon , El Sena , where the Río Madre de Dios is crossed by ferry and Peña Amarilla on the Río Beni.
population
The population of the village has increased more than tenfold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 214 | census |
| 2001 | 924 | census |
| 2012 | 2 587 | census |
The literacy rate among the 6+ year olds in the municipality of Sena rose from 80.1 percent (1992) to 85.8 percent, the life expectancy of newborns was 54.9 years, and the infant mortality rate rose from 8.6 percent (1992) to 10 .0 percent in 2001.
99.5 percent of the population of the Municipio Sena speak Spanish , 1.6 percent speak 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 dated February 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 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
- Municipio Sena - General Maps No. 90303
- Municipio Sena - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.02 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Pando - Social data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 2.42 MB)