Manitoba (Pailón)

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Manitoba
Basic data
Population (state)

population density
1472 inhabitants (2012 census)
7 inhabitants / km²
surface 201.30 km²
height 272  m
Post Code 07-0502-0103-9001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 24 ′  S , 61 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 24 ′  S , 61 ° 58 ′  W
Manitoba (Bolivia)
Manitoba
Manitoba
politics
Department Santa Cruz
province Chiquitos Province
climate
Climate diagram Pailón
Climate diagram Pailón

Manitoba is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Manitoba is a rural scattered settlement in the canton of Pailón in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pailón in the province of Chiquitos . The settlement extends at a height of about 272  m in the intensively used agricultural area over an area of ​​201 square kilometers and is inhabited by 323 families. It consists of the amalgamation of various Mennonite small communities that make their living by farming and raising livestock.

geography

Manitoba is located in the Chiquitania region between the alluvial plains of the Río Piraí and Río Grande in the west and the Chiquitos hill country in the east. The climate is semi-humid, the temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly during the day and during the year.

The annual average temperature is 24 to 25 ° C, with monthly average temperatures between almost 27 ° C in December and January and below 21 ° C in June and July (see climate diagram Pailón). The annual precipitation is around 950 mm, the dry season from July to September contrasts with a pronounced humidity period from November to February, in which the monthly values ​​reach up to 140 mm.

Transport network

Manitoba is 163 kilometers by road east of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 heads east via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande and splits 14 kilometers later in Pailón . From here the Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers via Cañada Larga , Tres Cruces and Pozo del Tigre to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 leads 1175 kilometers north to Guayaramerin .

Four kilometers east of Pozo del Tigre, an unpaved road branches off from Ruta 4 to the north, which reaches the center of the scattered settlement of Manitoba after another twenty-one kilometers.

population

The population of the region grew strongly, especially during the development phase through Mennonite immigration in the 1960s to 1980s, meanwhile the number of inhabitants fluctuates strongly from decade to decade:

year Residents source
1992 no detailed data census
2001 2222 census
2012 1 472 census
2015 2 109 count

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. Adalberto Kopp, Las colonias menonitas en Bolivia, page 63 November 2015 ( Spanish )

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