La Pintada (Bolivia)
| La Pintada | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 646 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1803 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0101-0200-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 36 ′ S , 64 ° 39 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Cercado | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tarija |
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La Pintada is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
La Pintada is the largest town in the canton of Santa Ana in the municipality of Tarija in the province of Cercado . The village is located between the Río Nuevo Guadalquivir in the west of the village and the Río Santa Ana in the east.
geography
La Pintada is conveniently located between the different climate zones of the country on the edge of the Andes , so that mostly mild and pleasant weather prevails (see climate diagram Tarija). In the rainy season between December and February (summer months) there are frequent torrential thunderstorms. The rest of the year is extremely low in precipitation.
The landscape has been eroded by the centuries of clearing and the region around Tarija is framed by bare mountain ranges. The area around Tarija used to be Bolivia's grain chamber. Today, in addition to agriculture, the region is rich in natural gas .
population
The population of the village has doubled in the past decade alone:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 315 | census |
| 2012 | 646 | census |
Transport network
La Pintada is fourteen kilometers by road southeast of Tarija , the capital of the department.
The highway Ruta 1 runs through Tarija in a south-north direction, which leads from Bermejo on the border with Argentina via Tarija, Potosí , Oruro and El Alto to Lake Titicaca and the border with Peru .
Eight kilometers southeast of the city center of Tarija, the highway Ruta 11 branches off in an easterly direction from Ruta 1, and from here it is another six kilometers south on Ruta 1 to La Pintada .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
Web links
- Relief map 6629-II of the Tarija region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.25 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Tarija - General Maps No. 60101
- Municipio Tarija - detailed map and population data (PDF; 629 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )