Filadelfia (Pando)
| Filadelfia | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 368 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 265 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0203-0100-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 21 ′ S , 68 ° 45 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Manuripi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Porvenir |
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Filadelfia is a town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Filadelfia is the central place of the canton Arroyo Grande in the municipality Filadelfia in the province of Manuripi and lies at an altitude of 265 m . The village is located on the right, southern bank of the Río Tahuamanu , which in its further course bears the name Río Orthon and flows into the Río Beni .
geography
Filadelfia is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin , northeast of the foothills of the Peruvian Cordillera Oriental in the tropical rainy climate of the equatorial zone .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C and fluctuates only insignificantly during the year and during the day, only in the dry winter months from June to August it is slightly lower due to the nocturnal heat radiation with open cloud cover (see Porvenir climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 1,900 mm and during the rainy season shows monthly values between 150 and 300 mm for more than half of the year, only in the short dry season from June to August does the precipitation drop to monthly values below 50 mm.
Transport network
Filadelfia is 52 kilometers by road south of Cobija , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cobija, the paved national road Ruta 13 leads south to Porvenir and from there further east over another 337 kilometers to El Triangulo in the Beni department , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 8 from Guayaramerin to Rurrenabaque .
Porvenir is also the northern starting point of Ruta 16 , which leads via Cachuelita Bajo to Filadelfia and on via Empresiña , Buyuyo and San Silvestre to Chivé . After completion of the extension south of Chivé, the Ruta 16 will once open up the entire western lowland in the border area with Peru and have a length of a good 900 kilometers.
population
The population of the place has almost doubled in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 198 | census |
| 2001 | 233 | census |
| 2012 | 368 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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 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.
Web links
- Cobija region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 5.64 MB)
- Municipio Filadelfia - General Maps No. 90203
- Municipio Filadelfia - detailed map and population data (PDF; 789 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )