Valle Nuevo
| Valle Nuevo | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Population (state) population density |
1992 population (2012 census) 9 population / km² |
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| surface | 223.68 km² | ||
| height | 295 m | ||
| Post Code | 07-0502-0102-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 17 ° 52 ′ S , 62 ° 23 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Santa Cruz | ||
| province | Chiquitos Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Pailón |
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Valle Nuevo is a town in the Santa Cruz department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Valle Nuevo is a rural scattered settlement in the canton of Belice in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Pailón in the province of Chiquitos . The settlement extends at a height of about 295 m in the intensively used agricultural area over an area of 223 square kilometers and is inhabited by 315 families. It was founded in 1993 as an amalgamation of various Mennonite small communities.
geography
Valle Nuevo is located in the Chiquitania region between the alluvial plains of the Río Piraí and Río Grande in the west and the Chiquitos hills in the east. The climate is semi-humid, the temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly during the day and during the year.
The annual average temperature is 24 to 25 ° C, with monthly average temperatures between almost 27 ° C in December and January and below 21 ° C in June and July (see climate diagram Pailón). The annual precipitation is around 950 mm, the dry season from July to September contrasts with a pronounced humidity period from November to February, in which the monthly values reach up to 140 mm.
Transport network
Valle Nuevo is located at a distance of 121 kilometers by road east of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz, the paved highway Ruta 4 / Ruta 9 heads east via Cotoca to Puerto Pailas , crosses the Río Grande and splits 14 kilometers later in Pailón . From here the Ruta 4 leads 587 kilometers via Cañada Larga , Tres Cruces and Pozo del Tigre to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 leads 1175 kilometers north to Guayaramerín . About 34 kilometers east of Pailón a dirt road branches off to the south and after about 26 kilometers reaches the settlement area of Valle Nuevo .
population
The population of the municipality has almost doubled since it was founded in 1993:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1 185 | count |
| 2000 | 1 480 | count |
| 2012 | 1 992 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Adalberto Kopp, Las colonias menonitas en Bolivia 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ 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
- The terrible Idyll In: STERN December 17, 2014 (accessed January 21, 2017)
- Relief map of the Cotoca region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 6.55 MB)
- Municipio Pailón - General Maps No. 70502
- Municipio Pailón - detailed map and population data (PDF; 1.18 MB) (Spanish)
- Department Santa Cruz - Social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.99 MB) (Spanish)
- Proyecto de Innovación Tecnológica Aplicada (PITA) - Menonitas (PDF; 698 kB) (Spanish)