Tarope
Tarope | ||
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Basic data | ||
Residents (state) | 1547 pop. (2012 census) | |
height | 373 m | |
Post Code | 07-0102-0102-6001 | |
Telephone code | (+591) | |
Coordinates | 17 ° 46 ′ S , 63 ° 1 ′ W | |
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politics | ||
Department | Santa Cruz | |
province | Andrés Ibáñez Province | |
climate | ||
Climate diagram Santa Cruz |
Tarope is a town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Tarope is the sixth largest town in the canton of Cotoca in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Cotoca in the province of Andrés Ibáñez and is located at an altitude of 373 m . Tarope is located thirty kilometers west of the Río Grande , one of the longest rivers in landlocked Bolivia.
geography
Tarope is located in the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central . The region has a subtropical climate with a balanced temperature profile.
The mean average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the monthly values fluctuate only marginally between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December (see Santa Cruz climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 1000 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 50 mm in the months of July and August and over 150 mm in January.
Transport network
Tarope is located 19 kilometers by road east of Santa Cruz , the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 leads east for twenty kilometers to Cotoca and on to Puerto Pailas , where it crosses the Río Grande and leads to the town of Pailón . There the two highways share, the Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, and the Ruta 9 leads 1175 kilometers north to Guayaramerín .
Two kilometers west of Cotoca, an asphalt country road branches off to the south from the Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 highway, crosses Tarope and after another four kilometers leads to the village of El Bisito .
population
The population of the village has increased threefold in the past two decades:
year | Residents | source |
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1992 | 528 | census |
2001 | 1 004 | census |
2012 | 1 547 | census |
Due to the historically increased population immigration , the region has a certain proportion of Quechua population, in the Municipio Cotoca 17.8 percent of the population 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 Santa Cruz 2001 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
Web links
- Relief map of the Santa Cruz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 7.88 MB)
- Municipio Cotoca - detailed map and population data (PDF; 355 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Cotoca - General Maps No. 70102
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 5.12 MB) ( Spanish )