Monte Centro
| Monte Centro | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 308 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 1954 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0101-0601-0001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 28 ′ S , 64 ° 44 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Cercado | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tarija |
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Monte Centro is a town in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Monte Centro is the fourth largest town in the canton of San Mateo in the municipality of Tarija in the province of Cercado . The village is located on the Río El Monte, which flows downstream in the city of Tarija into the Río Nuevo Guadalquivir , which then bears the name Río Tarija below the city .
geography
Monte Centro is conveniently located between the different climatic zones of the country on the edge of the Andes , so that mostly mild and pleasant weather prevails (see climate diagram Tarija). In the rainy season between December and February (summer months) there are frequent torrential thunderstorms. The rest of the year is extremely low in precipitation.
The landscape has been eroded by the centuries of clearing and the region around Tarija is framed by bare mountain ranges. The area around Tarija used to be Bolivia's grain chamber. Today, in addition to agriculture, the region is rich in natural gas .
population
The population of the village is one of the newly developed settlement areas near the city of Tarija and has increased significantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 44 | census |
| 2012 | 308 | census |
Transport network
Monte Centro is ten kilometers by road north of Tarija , the capital of the department.
The highway Ruta 1 runs through Tarija in a south-north direction, which leads from Bermejo on the border with Argentina via Tarija, Potosí , Oruro and El Alto to Lake Titicaca and the border with Peru .
Four kilometers north of the city center of Tarija, Ruta 1 crosses the Río Nuevo Guadalquivir in a north-westerly direction, and shortly before that, a side road turns north from Ruta 1, which leads via Compuerta to San Mateo and then in an easterly direction to Monte Centro .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
Web links
- Relief map 6629-I of the San Lorenzo region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.02 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Tarija - General Maps No. 60101
- Municipio Tarija - detailed map and population data (PDF; 629 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )