Moro Moro
| Moro Moro | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 625 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| Post Code | 07-0803-0100-8007 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 22 ′ S , 64 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Vallegrande Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Moro Moro |
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Moro Moro is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia . The community was founded on May 4th, 1841 by Don Juan Lorenzo Méndez.
Location in the vicinity
Moro Moro is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Moro Moro in the province of Vallegrande . The village is located at an altitude of 2369 m on the upper reaches of the Río Pajcha , a left tributary of the Río Mizque , which flows into the Río Grande a few kilometers below the mouth of the Pajcha . The agriculturally usable area around Moro Moro is only a few square kilometers, the mountain ridges east of the village rise to almost 3,000 m.
geography
Moro Moro is located in the transition area between the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental in the north and the Cordillera Central in the southwest, and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate in the protected valley location is temperate and balanced all year round, less mild than in the neighboring municipality of Vallegrande.
The mean average temperature of the region is 13 ° C (see climate diagram Moro Moro) and fluctuates only slightly between 10 ° C in July and 15 ° C from November to January. The annual precipitation is around 560 mm, with a dry season from May to September with monthly precipitation below 20 mm, and a wet season from December to February with just over 100 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Moro Moro is located at a distance of 309 kilometers by road southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 7 leads west to Cochabamba and after 187 kilometers via Samaipata and La Angostura reaches the small town of Mataral . From there the Ruta 22 branches off in a southerly direction and after 28 kilometers reaches Trigal and after another 25 kilometers the provincial capital Vallegrande . Two kilometers south of Trigal, a country road branches off to the west and leads via San Juan del Chaco, five kilometers away , to Moro Moro, 37 kilometers away, overcoming pass heights of up to 2,850 m.
population
The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 424 | census |
| 2001 | 551 | census |
| 2012 | 625 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive: Pueblo de Moro Moro celebró el 167 aniversario de su fundación ( Memento of May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) ( Spanish )
- ^ 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 Vallegrande region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.75 MB)
- Municipio Moro Moro - General Maps No. 70803
- Municipio Moro Moro - detailed map and population data (PDF; 685 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )