Palometas
| Palometas | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 181 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 250 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0602-0107-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 2 ′ S , 63 ° 32 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Sara Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Pedro |
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Palometas is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Palometas is the central place of the canton Palometas in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Santa Rosa del Sara in the province Sara . The place is located at an altitude of 250 m in the wetland between Río Yapacaní and Río Piraí on the right bank of the Río Palometillas , which leads over the Río Nuevo to the Río Piraí.
geography
Palometas is located in the tropical humid climate in front of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region has only been opened up in the last few decades and was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 25 ° C (see climate diagram San Pedro), the monthly values fluctuate between 21 ° C in June / July and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is almost 1500 mm, the monthly precipitation is abundant and lies between 50 mm in July and 250 mm in January.
Transport network
Palometas is located 119 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 4 leads via Warnes and Montero to Portachuelo , and from there a further 398 kilometers in a westerly direction to Cochabamba and another 376 kilometers to Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border.
In Portachuelo an unpaved road branches off in a northerly direction, which leads via trainees to Loma Alta , where it crosses the Ruta 35 , and further opens up the colonization area north of the Río Palacio via Palometas and Rincón de Palometas .
population
The population of the village has decreased by about a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 273 | census |
| 2001 | 222 | census |
| 2012 | 181 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been encouraged by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Santa Rosa 28.6 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 Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Topographic map of the Buena Vista region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.1 MB)
- Municipio Santa Rosa - General Maps No. 70602
- Municipio Santa Rosa - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.08 MB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )