Puente Caimanes
| Puente Caimanes | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 832 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 250 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1002-0103-5001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 4 ′ S , 63 ° 5 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Obispo Santistevan Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Warnes |
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Puente Caimanes is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puente Caimanes is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) General Saavedra and is located in the Obispo Santistevan province at an altitude of 250 m on the Río Chané in the wetland between the Río Piraí and Río Grande . The Municipio General Saavedra with around 17,000 inhabitants is a colonization area and is used intensively for agriculture.
geography
Puente Caimanes is located in a tropical humid climate . The region was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly 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
Puente Caimanes is 103 kilometers by road north of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz, the asphalted highway Ruta 4 leads 57 kilometers north to Montero , from there a regional road leads north-east for 26 kilometers to General Saavedra and on to Mineros . From there, a dirt road branches off to the east and reaches Puente Caimanes after twenty kilometers.
population
The population of the village has been subject to significant fluctuations over the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 751 | census |
| 2001 | 1 536 | census |
| 2013 | 832 | census |
Due to the immigration of indigenous people from the Altiplano , which has been promoted by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio General Saavedra 30.6 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 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; 4.99 MB)
Web links
- Topographic map of the Municipio Montero region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.2 MB)
- Municipio General Saavedra - General Maps No. 71002
- Municipio General Saavedra - detailed map and population data (PDF; 601 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )