Puerto Rico (Chiquitania)
| Puerto Rico | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1200 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 271 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1106-0205-2001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 21 ′ S , 62 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Province of Ñuflo de Chavez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pailón |
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Puerto Rico is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puerto Rico is the third largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Cuatro Cañadas in the province of Ñuflo de Chávez . The municipality is located at an altitude of 271 m, twenty kilometers east of the Bolivian Río Grande in a region characterized by development and agricultural colonization in the 20th century.
geography
Puerto Rico is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the Chiquitania region , a largely still sparsely populated landscape between Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border. The region's climate is a semi-humid climate of the warm subtropics .
The annual average temperature is 24 to 25 ° C, with monthly average temperatures between almost 27 ° C in December and January and below 21 ° C in June and July (see climate diagram Pailón). The annual precipitation is around 950 mm, the dry season from July to September contrasts with a pronounced humidity period from November to February, in which the monthly values reach up to 140 mm.
Transport network
Puerto Rico is located 92 kilometers by road northeast of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 heads east via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande and divides fourteen kilometers later in Pailón . From here the Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 leads 1175 kilometers north to Guayaramerín . Puerto Rico is on Ruta 9 , forty kilometers north of Pailón and eight kilometers south of Cuatro Cañadas .
population
The population of the village has increased roughly threefold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 394 | census |
| 2001 | 910 | census |
| 2012 | 1,200 | (Census) |
Due to the immigration of indigenous populations from the Altiplano , which has been encouraged by politics since the 1960s , the region has a not inconsiderable proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Cuatro Cañadas 35.1 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Winter: Regional development through agricultural colonization? ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) 2006
- ↑ The Effect Of Complementary Grazing (PDF; English; 109 kB)
- ^ 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; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- 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; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )