Porongo
| Porongo | |||
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 Porongo Church |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1433 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 470 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0103-0102-8001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 51 ′ S , 63 ° 19 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
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Porongo is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Porongo is the central place of the canton Ayacucho and the administrative seat of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Porongo in the province of Andrés Ibáñez . The village is located at an altitude of 470 m on the left bank of the Río Piraí .
geography
Porongo has a semi- humid humid tropical climate with little day and night fluctuations in temperatures.
The annual precipitation in the region is around 1000 mm, the annual average temperature around 24 ° C (see climate diagram Santa Cruz). A short dry season in July and August with monthly precipitation of less than 50 mm is offset by an extended humidity period , in which the monthly values clearly exceed 100 mm from November to February. The monthly average temperatures fluctuate between 20 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C from October to December.
Transport network
Porongo is located at a distance of 20 kilometers by road southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Porongo a dirt road leads eighteen kilometers in a north-easterly direction to Urubó , where a bridge crosses the 300 m wide Río Piraí and after another two kilometers reaches the outer ring of Santa Cruz.
Other road connections lead from Porongo in a west and south-westerly direction, cross the Río Piraí and reach the towns of El Carmen and Villa Simón Bolívar on the paved road Ruta 7 , which leads from Santa Cruz to Cochabamba .
population
The population of the place has increased by about a third in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 134 | census |
| 2001 | 1 185 | census |
| 2012 | 1 433 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been encouraged by politics since the 1960s , the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Porongo 13.0 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 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio Porongo - General Maps No. 70103
- Municipio Porongo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 722 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )