Montero Hoyos
| Montero Hoyos | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1848 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 303 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0101-0100-2003 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 38 ′ S , 62 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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Montero Hoyos is a country town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Montero Hoyos is the central place in the canton of Montero Hoyos in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Santa Cruz in the province of Andrés Ibáñez . The city is located at an altitude of 303 m on the right bank of the Río Grande , one of the longest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands, which at this point has a width of 2,300 m.
geography
Montero Hoyos is located in the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central .
The mean average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1,000 mm (see climate diagram Santa Cruz). The region has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December. The monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of July and August and over 150 mm in January.
Transport network
Montero Hoyos is located 51 kilometers by road southwest of the departmental capital Santa Cruz near the city of Puerto Pailas .
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, Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, Ruta 9 leads 1,175 kilometers north to Guayaramerín . In Puerto Pailas a country road branches off in a north-westerly direction from the trunk road 4/9 and after four kilometers reaches Montero Hoyos.
population
The population of the village has doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 985 | census |
| 2001 | 1 512 | census |
| 2012 | 1 848 | census |
Due to the historically increased population immigration , the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Santa Cruz 12.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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.
- ↑ INE social data Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Santa Cruz - General Maps No. 70101
- Municipio Santa Cruz - detailed map and population data (PDF; 807 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )