La Huerta (Tarija)

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La Huerta
Basic data
Residents (state) 201 pop. (2012 census)
height 2436  m
Post Code 06-0201-0300-3001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 21 ° 55 ′  S , 64 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 21 ° 55 ′  S , 64 ° 56 ′  W
La Huerta (Bolivia)
La Huerta
La Huerta
politics
Department Tarija
province Province of Aniceto Arce
climate
Climate diagram Padcaya
Climate diagram Padcaya

La Huerta is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

La Huerta is the largest town in the canton of Camacho in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Padcaya in the province of Aniceto Arce . The village is a scattered settlement , its core lies at an altitude of 2436  m on the left bank of the Río Camacho , which flows 48 kilometers further downstream past the town of Valle de Concepción (formerly: Uriondo ) and flows into the Río Guadalquivir , which further below the Name Río Tarija .

geography

La Huerta is located in southern Bolivia a few kilometers east of the biological reserve of the Cordillera de Sama in the transition to the Bolivian Chaco lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is 13.5 ° C (see Padcaya climate diagram), the monthly averages fluctuate between 9 ° C in June and July and 17 ° C in December and January. The annual precipitation is 630 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 10 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with monthly precipitation well over 100 mm.

Transport network

La Huerta is 73 kilometers by road south of Tarija , the capital of the department.

From the Tarija, the paved road Ruta 1 leads southeast towards the cities of Padcaya and Bermejo . After seventeen kilometers from the main road, the asphalted route 45 branches off to the west, after five kilometers it crosses the valley of the Río Guadalquivir and after three kilometers it reaches the village of Valle de Concepción . From there it continues as a dirt road in a south-westerly direction and reaches the town of Chaguaya via Chocloca and Juntas . Here the asphalted Ruta 45 continues in a south-easterly direction, a dirt road remains on the left, western bank of the Río Camacho and then meets the still-planned Ruta 28 in Camacho , which continues upriver past La Huerta and Queñahuayco and then to the west Towards Villazón .

population

The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 154 census
2001 434 census
2012 201 census

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  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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