Santa Lourdes
| Santa Lourdes | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 191 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 260 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0104-0100-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 8 ′ S , 68 ° 28 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Nicolás Suarez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Porvenir |
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Santa Lourdes is a town in the department of Pando in the lowlands of the South American Andean state Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santa Lourdes is the fifth largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Bella Flor in the province of Nicolás Suárez . Santa Lourdes is located at an altitude of 260 m, ten kilometers as the crow flies south of the border with Brazil and thirteen kilometers north of the Río Tahuamanu , which in its further course bears the name Río Orthon and flows into the Río Beni .
geography
Santa Lourdes is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin , northeast of the foothills of the Peruvian Cordillera Oriental in the tropical rainy climate of the equatorial zone .
The mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C and fluctuates only insignificantly during the year and during the day, only in the dry winter months from June to August it is slightly lower due to the nocturnal heat radiation with open cloud cover (see Porvenir climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 1,900 mm and during the rainy season shows monthly values between 150 and 300 mm for more than half of the year, only in the short dry season from June to August does the precipitation drop to monthly values below 50 mm.
Transport network
Santa Lourdes is located 61 kilometers by road southeast of Cobija , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Cobija the paved road Ruta 13 leads south via Bella Vista , Villa Busch and Villa Rojas to Porvenir . From there, Ruta 13 continues in an easterly direction to Santa Lourdes and over another 309 kilometers to El Triangulo in the Beni department , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 8 from Guayaramerin to Rurrenabaque .
population
The population of the place has increased by more than half in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 122 | census |
| 2012 | 191 | census |
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 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
- Santa Lourdes region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 5.64 MB)
- Municipio Bella Flor - General Maps No. 90104
- Municipio Bella Flor - detailed map and population data (PDF; 376 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )