Pailón
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.jpg) The old bridge over the Río Grande between Pailón and Puerto Pailas |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 9,850 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 55 | ||
| height | 291 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0502-0101-9004 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 40 ′ S , 62 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Chiquitos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pailón |
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Pailón is a small town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pailón is the central place of the Municipio Pailón in the province of Chiquitos and lies at an altitude of 291 m . The Río Grande flows west of Pailón , across the Río Grande is the metropolis of Santa Cruz de la Sierra .
geography
Pailón is located in the Bolivian lowlands 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
Pailón is 61 kilometers by road east of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved national road Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 heads east via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande on the new bridge Puente Pailas and splits 14 kilometers later in Pailón. From here the Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 leads 1175 kilometers north to Guayaramerín .
population
The population of the town has more than quadrupled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 3 741 | census |
| 2001 | 7 126 | census |
| 2012 | 9 850 | census |
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Pailón - General Maps No. 70502
- Municipio Pailón - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.18 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )