Tomatas Grande

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Tomatas Grande
Basic data
Residents (state) 657 pop. (2012 census)
height 2124  m
Post Code 06-0501-1200-4001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 21 ° 19 ′  S , 64 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 21 ° 19 ′  S , 64 ° 47 ′  W
Tomatas Grande (Bolivia)
Tomatas Grande
Tomatas Grande
politics
Department Tarija
province Province of Eustaquio Méndez
climate
Climate diagram Tarija
Climate diagram Tarija

Tomatas Grande is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Tomatas Grande is the central place of the canton Tomatas Grande in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) San Lorenzo in the province of Eustaquio Méndez . The street village of Tomatas Grande is located in the center at an altitude of 2155  m on the right, western bank of the Río Nuevo Guadalquivir , thirty kilometers upstream north of Tarija , the capital of the department.

geography

Tomatas Grande is located on the southeastern edge of the plateau of the Bolivian Altiplano on the transition to the lowlands. Because of the inland location, the climate is dry for more than half of the year, but far less harsh than the plateau and has a typical daytime climate, in which the temperature fluctuations between day and night are usually significantly greater than the seasonal fluctuations (see climate diagram Tarija).

The annual average temperature of the region is 19 ° C and fluctuates only slightly between 15 ° C in June / July and 22 ° C from December to February (see Tarija climate diagram). The annual precipitation is about 550 mm, with a strongly pronounced dry season from April to October with monthly precipitation below 30 mm, and a humidity period from December to February with over 100 mm monthly precipitation.

population

The population of the village has increased by around half in the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 433 census
2001 573 census
2012 657 census

Transport network

Tomatas Grande is located thirty kilometers by road north of Tarija , the capital of the department of the same name.

The asphalted highway Ruta 1 leads through Tarija, which crosses the entire Bolivian highlands in a south-north direction from Bermejo in the south on the Argentine border to the Peruvian border at Desaguadero and, besides Tarija, also passes the metropolises Potosí , Oruro and El Alto . Twelve kilometers north of Tarija, a country road branches off to the north at Rancho Norte and leads via San Lorenzo , Lajas Merced and Canasmoro for eighteen kilometers to Tomatas Grande .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo

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