Puerto Pacay
| Puerto Pacay | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 341 pop. (2001 census) | ||
| height | 260 m | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) 3- | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 10 ′ S , 62 ° 47 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Province of Ñuflo de Chavez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Okinawa I. |
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Puerto Pacay is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puerto Pacay is a village in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Cuatro Cañadas in the province of Ñuflo de Chávez . The community is located at an altitude of 260 m in the middle of a gentle hill country on the right, eastern bank of the Río Grande . Closest cities are Okinawa I (12 km) to the west and San Julián (36 km) to the north.
geography
Puerto Pacay is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the Chiquitania region , a largely unpopulated landscape between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border.
The mean average temperature of the region is a good 24 ° C (see climate diagram Okinawa I), the monthly values fluctuate between 21 ° C in June / July and around 26 ° C from October to March. The annual precipitation is about 1000 mm, the monthly precipitation is productive and lies between 30 mm in July and 175 mm in January.
Transport network
Puerto Pacay is located 110 kilometers by road northeast of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the asphalted highway Ruta 4 leads 57 kilometers northwards via Warnes to Montero . Here it meets the Ruta 10 in Guabirá , which in an easterly direction via Okinawa I reaches the Río Grande after a further twelve kilometers. The river has to be crossed here with small ferries and the road then leads from the Puerto Pacay jetty to San Ramón , Concepción , Santa Rosa de Roca and San Ignacio de Velasco and further along the Brazilian border via San Vicente de la Frontera to San Matías .
Eighteen kilometers east of Puerto Pacay, near the town of Los Troncos , the highway Ruta 9 branches off to the south from Ruta 10, which crosses the entire lowland in a north-south direction, from Guayaramerín in the north-east of the country to Santa Cruz to Yacuiba in the south on the border with Argentina .
population
The population of the village at the last census in 2001 was 341 people. More recent data are not yet available.
Web links
- Municipio Cuatro Cañadas - General Maps No. 71106
- Municipio Cuatro Cañadas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.55 MB) (Spanish)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) (Spanish)