Puerto Suarez
| Puerto Suarez | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 16,643 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 41 | ||
| height | 101 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-1401-0100-9001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 58 ′ S , 57 ° 48 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Germán Busch Province | ||
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 Climate diagram Puerto Suárez |
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Puerto Suárez is a city in the far east of the Santa Cruz Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puerto Suárez is the administrative capital of the province Germán Busch and the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puerto Suárez . It is located at an altitude of 101 m on the inland lake Laguna Cáceres , ten kilometers northwest of Puerto Quijarro on the border with Brazil . The Laguna Cáceres is connected to the important water network of the Río Paraguay and Rio Paraná via the Tamengo Canal .
geography
Puerto Suárez is located in the Bolivian part of Pantanal , one of the largest inland - wetlands of the earth. A few kilometers south of the city are the El Mutún mountains with the largest concentrations of iron and manganese in the world.
The annual average temperature of the region is around 26 ° C (see climate diagram Puerto Suárez), the monthly values fluctuate only slightly 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 from June to August with monthly precipitation below 30 mm, and a humidity period from November to March with over 100 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Puerto Suárez is located at a distance of 648 kilometers by road east of the departmental capital Santa Cruz .
Puerto Suárez is located on the over 1,500 kilometer long highway Ruta 4 , which starts in Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border, crosses the entire country in a west-east direction and via Cochabamba and Santa Cruz past Puerto Suárez to Puerto Quijarro on the Border with Brazil.
Puerto Suárez is well connected to both Santa Cruz de la Sierra and the Brazilian border via its airport and the east-west road and rail links.
population
The city was founded by Miguel Suárez Arana on November 10, 1875 , and the population did not exceed 2,000 people until the 1960s. Since then, the population has risen sharply:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 9 863 | census |
| 2001 | 11 594 | census |
| 2010 | 16 643 | census |
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Puerto Suárez
Source: wetterkontor.de
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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 Puerto Suarez region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 9.35 MB)
- Relief map of the Corumba region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 8.92 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Suárez - General Maps No. 71401
- Municipio Puerto Suárez - detailed map and population data (PDF 1.59 MB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Puerto Suárez - Information from the Santa Cruz Departmental Government ( Spanish )
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) ( Spanish )