Puerto Rico (El Torno)
| Puerto Rico | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 4219 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 105 | ||
| height | 542 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0105-0104-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 0 ′ S , 63 ° 24 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram La Angostura |
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Puerto Rico is a country city in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
location
Puerto Rico is the third largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) El Torno in the province of Andrés Ibáñez . The city is located at an altitude of 542 m on the right bank of the Río Piraí directly south of the city of El Torno .
geography
Puerto Rico is located in the tropical humid climate on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental . The region was covered by subtropical rainforest before colonization , but is now mostly cultivated land .
The mean average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is 950 mm (see climate diagram La Angostura). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December and January, the monthly precipitation is abundant from November to March and is over 100 mm, the climate from June to September is arid with precipitation below 40 mm.
Transport network
Puerto Rico is 35 kilometers by road southwest of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From the center of Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 7 leads as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " in a south-westerly direction via the cities of El Carmen , La Guardia and El Torno to Puerto Rico , and from there on via La Angostura , Samaipata and Comarapa to Cochabamba .
population
The population of the village has increased several times over in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 977 | census |
| 2001 | 1 633 | census |
| 2012 | 4 219 | census |
Due to immigration from the Altiplano in the 2nd half of the 20th century, the region has a significant proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of El Torno 27.7 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Vallegrande region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.75 MB)
- Municipio El Torno - General Maps No. 70105
- Municipio El Torno - detailed map and population data (PDF; 701 kB) ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )