Luz de America
| Luz de America | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 205 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 245 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0203-0300-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 12 ° 7 ′ S , 68 ° 37 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Manuripi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Porvenir |
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Luz de America is a town in the Pando Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Luz de America is a village in the canton of Chivé in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Filadelfia in the province of Manuripi and is located at an altitude of 245 m . The town is 36 kilometers south of the Manuripi River , 34 kilometers north of the Madre de Dios River in the south, and 25 kilometers east of the Peruvian- Bolivian border.
geography
Luz de America is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin , northeast of the foothills of the Peruvian Cordillera Oriental in the tropical rainy climate of the equatorial zone .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C and fluctuates only insignificantly during the year and during the day, only in the dry winter months from June to August it is slightly lower due to the nocturnal heat radiation with open cloud cover (see Porvenir climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 1,900 mm and during the rainy season shows monthly values between 150 and 300 mm for more than half of the year, only in the short dry season from June to August does the precipitation drop to monthly values below 50 mm.
Transport network
Luz de America is located 154 kilometers by road south of Cobija , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cobija the paved road Ruta 13 leads south to Porvenir and from there further east over another 337 kilometers to El Triangulo in the Beni department , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 8 from Guayaramerín to Rurrenabaque .
Porvenir is also the starting point of more than 900 kilometers of Ruta 16 , which Cachuelita Bajo , Filadelfia and Empresiña after Buyuyo and on about Espíritu , Holanda (Pando) , San Silvestre , Curichon , San Antonio del Chive , Luz de America and Florida by Chive leads . After completion of the extension south of Chivé, the Ruta 16 will once open the entire western lowland in the border area with Peru .
population
The population of the village has doubled between the last two censuses:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 100 | census |
| 2012 | 205 | 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
- Chivé region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 7.65 MB)
- Puerto Heath region - Relief map 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.84 MB)
- Municipio Filadelfia - detailed map and population data (PDF; 789 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Filadelfia - General Maps No. 90203
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )