San Buenaventura (Bolivia)
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 3089 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 144 | ||
| height | 213 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1502-0100-6006 | ||
| Telephone code | +591 (3) 892- | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Abel Iturralde Province | ||
| mayor | Javier Delgado | ||
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 Climate diagram Rurrenabaque |
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San Buenaventura (also San Buena Ventura ) is a country town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
San Buenaventura is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Buenaventura in the province of Abel Iturralde . It is located at an altitude of 213 m on the left bank of the Río Beni , the border river to the Beni department , opposite the small town of Rurrenabaque . To the west of the city rises the mountain range of the Sierra de Manuque , which belongs to the eastern foothills of the Andean chain of the Cordillera Oriental .
geography
San Buenaventura is located on the western edge of the Moxos plain , with over 100,000 km² one of the largest wetlands on earth; the predominant form of vegetation in the Moxos plain is the tropical savannah . The climate in the San Buena Ventura / Rurrenabaque region is tropically hot and humid all year round, but it can also get relatively cool in winter due to the Surazo (cold wind from the south).
The annual precipitation is almost 2000 mm (see climate diagram Rurrenabaque), with monthly precipitation of about 300 mm in January and February, and less than 100 mm in the months of August to September. The average monthly temperatures are between 23 ° C and 28 ° C all year round.
Transport network
San Buenaventura is 115 kilometers by road southeast of the provincial capital Ixiamas and about 450 kilometers north of La Paz , the capital of the department.
In Buenaventura, a branch of the 1,036-kilometer-long national road Ruta 16 , which is still largely planned, ends in Buenaventura , which will lead from Porvenir near the Brazilian border in the northwest to Huarina on the southeast edge of Lake Titicaca . The Ruta 16 passes on their way to the provincial capital Ixiamas , from the dirt of a 115-kilometer highway through Tumupasa to San Buenaventura leads.
population
The population of the village has almost doubled in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 1,670 | census |
| 2001 | 2 264 | census |
| 2012 | 3,089 | 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
- Relief map of the Rurrenabaque region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.9 MB)
- Relief map of the Apolo region 1: 250: 000 (PDF; 6.1 MB)
- Municipio San Buenaventura - General Maps No. 21502
- Municipio San Buenaventura - detailed map and population data (PDF; 794 kB) (Spanish)
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )
- Search for Solidarity In: Junge Welt, December 15, 2016