Loma Alta (Tarija)

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Loma Alta
Basic data
Residents (state) 910 pop. (2012 census)
height 767  m
Post Code 06-0302-0101-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 21 ° 53 ′  S , 63 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 21 ° 53 ′  S , 63 ° 46 ′  W
Loma Alta (Bolivia)
Loma Alta
Loma Alta
politics
Department Tarija
province Gran Chaco Province
climate
Climate diagram Yacuiba
Climate diagram Yacuiba

Loma Alta is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Loma Alta is the second largest city of Canton Caraparí in Municipio Caraparí in the southwestern part of the province of Gran Chaco . The village is located at the mouth of the Río El Chorro Grande in the Río Caraparí at an altitude of 767  m between the ridge of the Serranía Aguaragüe in the east and the Serranía Itaú in the west, thirty kilometers northwest of the city of Yacuiba .

geography

Loma Alta is located on the southeast edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the lowlands of the subtropical Gran Chaco , which stretches across northwest Paraguay , northeast Argentina and southeast Bolivia. The climate is subtropical with hot humid summers and moderately warm and dry winters.

The annual average temperature is almost 22 ° C, the average monthly values ​​fluctuate between 15 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C in January (see Yacuiba climate diagram). Annual precipitation is just under 1100 mm, with a four-month dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm and a humidity period from December to March with 160–200 mm monthly precipitation.

population

The population of the village has almost doubled over the past decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 483 census
2013 910 census

Transport network

Loma Alta is located at a distance of 251 kilometers by road east of Tarija , the capital of the department.

The Ruta 29 trunk road runs through Caraparí, heading north to Palos Blancos , where it meets Ruta 11 . This leads 173 kilometers to the west and meets the Ruta 1 eight kilometers before Tarija , which from there crosses the entire Altiplano to the north and finally reaches Desaguadero on the Peruvian border via the large cities of Potosí , Oruro and El Alto .

In a southerly direction, three kilometers south of Caraparí, the 169-kilometer-long Ruta 33 begins , which continues via Loma Alta to Bermejo on the Argentine border and from there is connected to the northern Argentine cities of Aguas Blancas and Pichanal via Ruta Nacional 50 .

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

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