Puerto Villarroel
| Puerto Villarroel | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 2072 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 182 | ||
| height | 195 m | ||
| Post Code | 03-1205-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 50 ′ S , 64 ° 48 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Cochabamba | ||
| province | Carrasco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Villa Tunari |
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Puerto Villarroel is a country town in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Puerto Villarroel is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Puerto Villarroel in the province of Carrasco . The city is located at an altitude of 195 m on the left bank of the Río Ichilo , which flows into the Río Mamoré and this continues to the Amazon .
geography
Puerto Villarroel is located in the Bolivian lowlands off the northern edge of the Cordillera Oriental . The climate is tropical with a pronounced time of day climate .
The long-term average annual temperature is 25 ° C (see climate diagram Puerto Villarroel), the monthly temperatures are between just under 22 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from November to February. The region's climate is fully humid , with an annual rainfall of 2,500 mm, only the months of July to September are less rainy, in the summer months from December to March there is regular rainfall of 300 to 400 mm.
Transport network
Puerto Villarroel is located at a distance of 251 kilometers by road northeast of the departmental capital Cochabamba .
The 1,657-kilometer Ruta 4 highway passes near Puerto Villarroel and leads from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border in the east across the country to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border . From Cochabamba you can reach Puerto Villarroel via Villa Tunari , Chimoré and Ivirgarzama , the trunk road then continues to Warnes and Santa Cruz . In Ivirgarzama, the asphalt road Ruta 15 , which is only 27 kilometers long, branches off in a north-easterly direction to Puerto Villarroel .
population
The population of the village has increased by about a fifth in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 643 | census |
| 2001 | 1 778 | census |
| 2013 | 2 072 | census |
Due to the historically grown population development, the region has a clear proportion of indigenous population, in the municipality of Puerto Villarroel 82.8 percent of the inhabitants 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 Cochabamba 2001 (PDF; 8.0 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Villa Tunari region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 3.05 MB)
- Municipio Puerto Villarroel - General Maps No. 31205
- Municipio Puerto Villarroel - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 603 kB)
- Departamento Cochabamba - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 7.58 MB)