Portachuelo
| Portachuelo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 14.091 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 42 | ||
| height | 301 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0601-0101-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) 3 | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 21 ′ S , 63 ° 24 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Sara Province | ||
| mayor | Carlos Humberto Parada (MNR) | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Warnes |
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Portachuelo is a small town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia . The city was founded on December 8, 1770.
Location in the vicinity
Portachuelo is the seat of the administration of the province of Sara and the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Portachuelo . The city is located in the southern part of the Sara province at an altitude of 301 m on the left bank of the Río Piraí at the mouth of the Río Guendá .
Fifteen kilometers east of Portachuelo , on the other side of the Río Piraí , is Montero , the capital of the Obispo Santistevan province , a city of almost 100,000 inhabitants.
geography
Portachuelo is located in the humid tropical climate off the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region was covered by tropical rainforest before colonization , but is now largely cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is just under 24 ° C (see Warnes climate diagram), the monthly values fluctuate between 20 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual precipitation is about 1300 mm, the monthly precipitation is productive and lies between 35 mm in August and 200 mm in January.
Transport network
Portachuelo is located at a distance of 75 kilometers by road northwest 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.
population
The population of the place has doubled in the past three and a half decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 059 | census |
| 1992 | 9 453 | census |
| 2001 | 11 338 | census |
| 2012 | 14 091 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population
- ^ 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
- Municipio Portachuelo - Information from the Gobierno Autónomo Departamental ( Spanish )
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio Portachuelo - General Maps No. 70601
- Municipio Portachuelo - detailed map and population data (PDF; 678 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )