Pozo Colorado (Porongo)
Pozo Colorado | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 1150 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 528 m | |
Post Code | 07-0103-0101-2002 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 17 ° 50 ′ S , 63 ° 20 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Santa Cruz | |
province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
Pozo Colorado is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Pozo Colorado is the third largest town in the Ayacucho canton in the Porongo municipality in the Andrés Ibáñez province . The village is located at an altitude of 528 m five kilometers north and west of the Río Piraí .
geography
Pozo Colorado 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
Pozo Colorado is located 24 kilometers by road southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Pozo Colorado a country road leads in a south-easterly direction to the central town of Porongo and from there a dirt road eighteen kilometers in a north-easterly direction to Urubó , where a bridge crosses the 300 m wide Río Piraí and after another two kilometers the outer ring of Santa Cruz reached.
population
The town's population has doubled over the past decade:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | no detailed data | census |
2001 | 555 | census |
2012 | 1 150 | 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 )