Porvenir (Pando)
| Porvenir | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 4267 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 103 | ||
| height | 222 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0102-0101-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 14 ′ S , 68 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Nicolás Suarez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Porvenir |
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Porvenir is a country town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Porvenir is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Porvenir in the province of Nicolás Suárez and is located at an altitude of 222 m . The city is located ten kilometers as the crow flies south of the border with Brazil on the left bank of the Río Tahuamanu , which is called the Río Orthon and flows into the Río Beni .
geography
Porvenir is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin , northeast of the foothills of the Peruvian Cordillera Oriental in the tropical rainy climate of the equatorial zone .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C and fluctuates only insignificantly during the year and during the day, only in the dry winter months from June to August it is slightly lower due to the nocturnal heat radiation with open cloud cover (see Porvenir climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 1,900 mm and during the rainy season shows monthly values between 150 and 300 mm for more than half of the year, only in the short dry season from June to August does the precipitation drop to monthly values below 50 mm.
Transport network
Porvenir is 33 kilometers by road south of Cobija , the capital of the department.
From Cobija the paved road Ruta 13 leads south to Porvenir and from there further east over another 337 kilometers to El Triangulo in the Beni department , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 8 from Guayaramerín to Rurrenabaque .
Porvenir is also the starting point of the more than 900 kilometers long Ruta 16 , which leads south via Chivé and is to continue to Ixiamas and Apolo .
population
The town's population has more than tripled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 910 | census |
| 2001 | 1 730 | census |
| 2012 | 4,267 | census |
Porvenir massacre
On September 11, 2008, seven kilometers north of Porvenir, 30 people were shot dead by snipers during a protest march by small farmers. The farming families were preparing to cross a bridge when they were ambushed and shot at with automatic weapons from tree tops. The background to the escalating violence was the ongoing conflict between the Bolivian central government under President Evo Morales and the provincial governments of the " Media Luna " in the lowlands, which are pressing for autonomy . The government accuses Leopoldo Fernández , the prefect of the department, of being responsible for the formation of the paramilitary hundreds that were responsible for the Porvenir massacre, and ordered his arrest.
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.
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- BOLIVIA: the Massacre in Porvenir (English)
Web links
- Cobija region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 5.64 MB)
- Municipio Porvenir - General Maps No. 90102
- Municipio Porvenir - detailed map and population data (PDF; 376 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )