Paurito
| Paurito | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1556 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 356 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0101-0401-0002 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 53 ′ S , 62 ° 56 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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Paurito is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Paurito is the central place of the canton Paurito in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Santa Cruz in the province Andrés Ibáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 356 m fourteen kilometers west of the Río Grande , one of the longest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands.
geography
Paurito 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 1000 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
Paurito is located 27 kilometers as the crow flies southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved road Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 leads 18 kilometers east to Cotoca and from there on over the Río Grande to the city of Pailón . There the two highways share, the Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, and the Ruta 9 leads 1175 kilometers north to Guayaramerín .
In Cotoca, a country road branches off in a southerly direction from trunk road 4/9 and after sixteen kilometers reaches Paurito.
population
The town's population has more than doubled over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 027 | census |
| 2001 | 1 548 | census |
| 2012 | 1 556 | 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
- ^ 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 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 )