Serranía de Mosetenes
| Serranía de Mosetenes | ||
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| location | Department of Cochabamba ( Bolivia ) | |
| Mountain region | Before | |
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| Coordinates | 16 ° 20 ′ S , 66 ° 20 ′ W | |
The Serranía de Mosetenes (also: Cordillera de Mosetenes ) is an elongated ridge in the department of Cochabamba in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
The Serranía de Mosetenes is one of the Bolivian Voranden chains and lies northeast of the Cordillera de Cocapata and extends east along the Río Malpaso , the Río Altamachi and the Río Santa Elena , which, like the Serranía de Mosetenes, run from southeast to northwest. The southern part of the ridge is in the municipality of Villa Tunari in the province of Chapare , the middle and northern part in the municipality of Morochata in the province of Ayopaya . To the northeast of the Serranía de Mosetenes, the significantly lower Serranía Marimonos and the Serranía Sejeruma run on the edge of the Beni lowlands . The Serranía de Mosetenes has a length of a little more than a hundred kilometers, the highest peaks in the middle and at the southern end of the Voranden chain reach heights of ( 2040 m ) and ( 2060 m ).
geography
The Serranía de Mosetenes follows the folding direction of the Andes high mountains without reaching the absolute height of the central Andean regions. From the Serranía de Mosetenes a number of smaller rivers drains to the southwest and to the northeast.
Development
The Serranía del Mosetenes is almost uninhabited, it is hardly accessible at all by unpaved roads.
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Rosa region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.0 MB)
- Relief map of the Morguicho region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 11.3 MB)
- Relief map of the Quebrada Laboreta region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 12.3 MB)
- Satellite map of the Santa Isabel region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 3.8 MB)
- Maciej Tarasin: Bolivia's Rio Altamachi by Makeshift Raft March 30, 2011 ( English )