Los Troncos
| Los Troncos | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 332 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 255 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1106-0206-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+ 591-3) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 4 ′ S , 62 ° 38 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Province of Ñuflo de Chavez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Ramón |
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Los Troncos is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Los Troncos is the fourth largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Cuatro Cañadas in the province of Ñuflo de Chávez . The village is located at an altitude of 255 m in the middle of a gently rolling landscape eighteen kilometers east of the Río Grande . Closest cities are San Julián (18 km) in the north and Okinawa I (30 km) in the west.
geography
Los Troncos is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the Chiquitania region , a landscape between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border that is still sparsely populated in large regions .
The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm subtropics . The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only slightly over the course of the year between 21 and 22 ° C (see climate diagram San Ramón) in the winter months of June and July with strong cold south winds, and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March.
The annual amount of precipitation averages around 1000 mm over the long term, which falls mainly in the wet season from November to March, while the arid months from July to September show monthly values between 25 and 50 mm.
Transport network
Los Troncos is located at a distance of 128 kilometers by road northeast of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalted highway Ruta 4 leads 57 kilometers northwards via Warnes to Montero . Here she meets in Guabirá on the Ruta 10 , the east across Okinawa I for further 71 kilometers Los Troncos reached. The Route 10 then continues to San Ramón , Concepción , Santa Rosa de Roca and San Ignacio de Velasco and further along the Brazilian border via San Vicente de la Frontera to San Matías .
In Los Troncos, the highway Ruta 9 branches off to the south from Ruta 10, which crosses the entire lowland in a north-south direction, from Guayaramerín in the north-east of the country via Santa Cruz to Yacuiba in the south on the border with Argentina .
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a third over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 431 | census |
| 2012 | 332 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Effect Of Complementary Grazing (PDF; 109 kB) (English)
- ^ 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
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Cuatro Cañadas - General Maps No. 71106
- Municipio Cuatro Cañadas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.55 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )