Ichilo (Bolivia)

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Ichilo
Basic data
Full name Colorado Ichilo
Residents (state) 118 pop. (2001 census)
height 341  m
Post Code 07-0403-0100-5001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 24 ′  S , 64 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 24 ′  S , 64 ° 13 ′  W
Colorado Ichilo (Bolivia)
Colorado Ichilo
Colorado Ichilo
politics
Department Santa Cruz
province Ichilo Province
climate
Climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní
Climate diagram Santa Fe de Yapacaní

Ichilo (also: Colorado Ichilo ) is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Ichilo is a village in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yapacaní and is located in the province of Ichilo on the upper reaches of the Río Ichilo , on a river terrace in the triangle between the Río Ichilo , the Río Colorado and the Río Alto Ichilo . The place is five kilometers east of the border with the Department of Cochabamba .

geography

Ichilo 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.

The Amboró National Park extends south of Ichilo on the north-eastern slopes of the Cordillera .

Transport network

Ichilo is 150 kilometers by road northwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz, the Ruta 4 highway runs for 105 kilometers via Warnes to the provincial capital Buena Vista , from there via Yapacaní in a westerly direction to Cochabamba and the Chilean border. Seventeen kilometers after Yapacaní, an unpaved side road branches off in a southerly direction and after another 28 kilometers you reach the Ichilo settlement .

population

The population of the village has decreased by about half in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 202 census
2001 118 census
2012 no detailed data census

Individual evidence

  1. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  2. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ine.gob.bo
  3. 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo

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