Las Piedras (Pando)
| Las Piedras | |||
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 typical residential houses in Las Piedras |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1133 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 141 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0301-0101-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 2 ′ S , 66 ° 8 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Madre de Dios province | ||
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 Climate diagram Riberalta |
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Las Piedras is a town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Las Piedras is the most populous place in the canton of Agua Dulce in the district ( Bolivian: Municipio ) Puerto Gonzales Moreno in the province of Madre de Dios . The village is located at an altitude of 139 m on the left bank of the Río Beni , fourteen kilometers before the confluence of the Río Madre de Dios .
geography
Las Piedras is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin on one of the tributaries of the Rio Madeira .
The mean average temperature of the region is 26 ° C (see climate diagram Riberalta) and fluctuates only insignificantly between around 25 ° C from April to August and just under 28 ° C in December. The annual precipitation is about 1,300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from June to August with monthly precipitation below 20 mm, and a humidity period from December to January with over 200 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Las Piedras is 300 kilometers as the crow flies and 448 kilometers by road east of Cobija , the capital of the department.
From Cobija the 370 km long highway Ruta 13 leads east to El Choro , from there the Ruta 8 over 69 kilometers north to the city of Riberalta on the right bank of the Río Beni opposite the mouth of the Río Madre de Dios. From Riberalta, two short unpaved roads and a crossing of the Río Beni lead in a westerly direction via Las Piedras to Puerto Gonzalo Moreno .
population
The population of the village has doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 430 | census |
| 2001 | 564 | census |
| 2012 | 1 133 | census |
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ 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
- Puerto Gonzalo Moreno region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.80 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Gonzalo Moreno - General Maps No. 90301
- Municipio Puerto Gonzalo Moreno - detailed map and population data (PDF; 441 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )