Puerto Rico (Pando)
| Puerto Rico | |||
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 View of the Río Orthon at the western exit of Puerto Rico |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2672 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 174 | ||
| height | 175 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0201-0200-6001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 6 ′ S , 67 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Manuripi Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Puerto Rico |
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Puerto Rico is a country town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia . The city was the first capital of the Pando department in 1938.
Location in the vicinity
Puerto Rico is the seat of the administration of the province of Manuripi and the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puerto Rico and is located in the canton of Victoria at an altitude of 175 m . Near Puerto Rico, the Río Manuripi and Río Tahuamanu unite to form the Río Orthon , which flows into the Río Beni 410 km below the confluence .
geography
Puerto Rico lies in the Bolivian lowlands in the river system of the Amazon , large stretches of the region are still covered with tropical rainforest, the climate of the region is the humid rainy climate of the tropics.
The mean annual temperature of the region is 26.5 ° C (see climate diagram Puerto Rico / Bolivia), the monthly mean temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 25 ° C in June and July and over 27 ° C from September to January. The annual precipitation is 1,800 mm, the maximum precipitation is over 200 mm from December to March, and only the short dry season from June to August has monthly precipitation of 30 mm.
Transport network
Puerto Rico is 169 kilometers east of Cobija , the capital of the department, at an important river crossing.
Of Cobija from 370 kilometers takes highway Ruta 13 east over Porvenir to Puerto Rico , where they the orthon river crossing, and then on to El Triangulo ( El Choro ). In El Choro, Route 13 meets Route 8 , which leads from Guayaramerín and Riberalta in the north to Reyes , Rurrenabaque and Yucumo in the central Bolivian lowlands.
population
The population of the village has increased fivefold in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 509 | census |
| 2001 | 1 522 | census |
| 2013 | 2,672 | 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 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.
Web links
- Puerto Rico region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.30 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Rico - General Maps No. 90201
- Municipio Puerto Rico - detailed map and population data (PDF; 908 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )