Puerto Quijarro
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 Puerto Quijarro train station |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 11,071 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 50 | ||
| height | 144 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1402-0100-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 19 ° 0 ′ S , 57 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Germán Busch Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Puerto Suárez |
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Puerto Quijarro is a small town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puerto Quijarro is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puerto Quijarro in the province of Germán Busch . The city is located at an altitude of 144 m on the southeastern edge of the Laguna Cáceres , directly on the Brazilian border opposite the city of Corumbá .
To the north of the city is Puerto Aguirre , the only major Bolivian port with access to international markets, through which a significant part of Bolivian exports and imports pass.
geography
Puerto Quijarro is located in the Bolivian part of Pantanal , one of the largest inland - wetlands of the earth.
The mean average temperature of the region is around 26 ° C (see climate diagram Puerto Suárez) and fluctuates only insignificantly between 22 and 23 ° C in June and July and 28 to 29 ° C from October to February. The annual precipitation is just over 1000 mm, with a short dry season in June and August with monthly precipitation below 30 mm, and a humidity period from November to March with over 100 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Puerto Quijarro is located at a distance of 658 kilometers by road southeast of the departmental capital Santa Cruz .
By Puerto Quijarro the more than 1,500 kilometers takes highway Ruta 4 that its beginning in Tambo Quemado on the Chilean has border, crosses the entire country in west-east direction and Cochabamba , Santa Cruz and Puerto Suárez in Puerto Quijarro over over the Border leads to Corumbá.
population
The population of the village has more than doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 6 324 | census |
| 2001 | 8 963 | census |
| 2012 | 11 071 | census |
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 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
- Relief map of the Corumba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.92 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Quijarro - General Maps No. 71402
- Municipio Puerto Quijarro - detailed map and population data (PDF 1.59 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Puerto Quijarro - Information from the Santa Cruz Departmental Government ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )