Villa Busch
| Villa Busch | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 734 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 256 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0101-0101-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 5 ′ S , 68 ° 47 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Nicolás Suarez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Cobija |
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Villa Busch is a town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Busch is the second largest town in the Municipio Cobija in the province of Nicolás Suárez and is located at an altitude of 256 m . Villa Busch is the second independent municipality south of the city of Cobija on the way to Porvenir and is only three kilometers west of the border with Brazil .
geography
Villa Busch is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin , northeast of the foothills of the Peruvian Cordillera Oriental in the tropical rainy climate of the equatorial zone .
The temperature fluctuations are low, both during the day and during the year. The annual average temperature is 25 ° C. The humidity is high, so that there is repeated heavy rain for much of the year . The annual precipitation of around 1750 mm is more than double the precipitation in Central Europe. Only the months of June to August are characterized by a dry season , in which the low rainfall evaporates quickly.
Transport network
Villa Busch is located a few kilometers by road south of Cobija , the capital of the department.
From the northern edge of Cobija, the paved national road Ruta 13 leads south and reaches Villa Busch via the village of Bella Vista after ten kilometers. From there it continues south to Porvenir , and from here further east over a further 337 kilometers to El Triangulo in the Beni department , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 8 from Guayaramerin to Rurrenabaque .
population
The population of the place has increased rapidly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 152 | census |
| 2001 | 256 | census |
| 2012 | 734 | 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
- Cobija region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 5.64 MB)
- Municipio Cobija - Politics, Population and Economy ( Spanish )
- Municipio Cobija - General Maps No. 90101
- Municipio Cobija - detailed map and population data (PDF; 229 kB)
- Departamento Pando - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 2.42 MB)