Santuario
| Santuario | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 87 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 142 m | ||
| Post Code | 08-0201-0371-2701 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 32 ′ S , 66 ° 28 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Beni | ||
| province | Province of Vaca Díez | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Riberalta |
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Santuario is a town in the Beni department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Santuario is a village in the canton of Florida in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Riberalta in the province of Vaca Díez . The place is located at an altitude of 142 m southwest of the city of Riberalta on the right, eastern bank of the Río Geneshuaya , which flows further north 29 kilometers downstream into the Río Beni .
geography
Santuario is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin in the north of the country.
The mean average temperature of the region is 26 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 25 ° C in May and 27 to 28 ° C from December to February (see Riberalta climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 1,300 mm, with a pronounced dry season from June to August with monthly precipitation below 20 mm, and a humidity period from December to January with monthly precipitation of more than 200 mm.
Transport network
Santuario is located 842 kilometers by road north of Trinidad , the capital of the department, and 324 kilometers by road southeast of Cobija , the capital of the Pando department .
From Trinidad, the 602-kilometer Ruta 3 highway leads west to Yucumo and on to the capital La Paz . In Yucumo, Ruta 3 meets the end of 696 kilometers long Ruta 8 , which leads north via Rurrenabaque and Reyes , reaches El Triangulo after 541 kilometers and continues from there to Riberalta and Guayaramerín on the Brazilian border.
At El Triangulo, Route 13 branches off to the west from Route 8 and crosses the Río Geneshuaya at Santuario . In the further course the road crosses the Río Beni, the Río Madre de Dios and the Río Manuripi and reaches Cobija after a total of 370 kilometers.
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no data | census |
| 2001 | 3 | census |
| 2012 | 87 | 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
- Topographic map of the Comunidad Las Palmas region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- Municipio Riberalta - General Maps No. 80201
- Municipio Riberalta - detailed map and population data (PDF; 2.12 MB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Beni - Social data of the provinces and municipalities (PDF; 3.82 MB) ( Spanish )