Villa Rojas
| Villa Rojas | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1231 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 259 m | ||
| Post Code | 09-0102-0101-3001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 11 ° 13 ′ S , 68 ° 44 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Pando | ||
| province | Nicolás Suarez Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Porvenir |
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Villa Rojas (formerly: Villa Bella ) is a town in the Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villa Rojas is the second largest town in the municipality of Porvenir in the Nicolás Suárez province . Villa Rojas is located at an altitude of 259 m, eight kilometers as the crow flies south of the border with Brazil and five kilometers north of the Río Tahuamanu , which in its further course bears the name Río Orthon and flows into the Río Beni .
geography
Villa Rojas 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 mean average temperature of the region is almost 26 ° C and fluctuates only insignificantly during the year and during the day, only in the dry winter months from June to August it is slightly lower due to the nocturnal heat radiation with open cloud cover (see Porvenir climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 1,900 mm and during the rainy season shows monthly values between 150 and 300 mm for more than half of the year, only in the short dry season from June to August does the precipitation drop to monthly values below 50 mm.
Transport network
Villa Rojas is 28 kilometers by road south of Cobija , the capital of the department.
From Cobija the asphalted national road Ruta 13 leads south via Bella Vista and Villa Busch to the junction of Ruta 18 and on via Villa Rojas to Porvenir . From there, the Ruta 13 continues east across 337 km to El Triangulo in Beni Department , where the north-south from Guayaramerín to Rurrenabaque running Ruta 8 hits.
population
The population of the place has increased several times over in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 187 | census |
| 2001 | 212 | census |
| 2012 | 1 231 | census |
Porvenir massacre
On September 11, 2008, a few kilometers north of Villa Rojas, 30 people were shot dead by snipers during a protest march by small farmers. The farming families were preparing to cross a bridge when they were ambushed and shot at with automatic weapons from tree tops. The background to the escalating violence was the ongoing conflict between the Bolivian central government under President Evo Morales and the provincial governments of the " Media Luna " in the lowlands, which are pressing for autonomy . After the massacre, the Prefect of the Department, Leopoldo Fernández , was accused by the government of being responsible for the formation of the paramilitary groups responsible for the Porvenir massacre and ordered his arrest.
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 Porvenir - General Maps No. 90102
- Municipio Porvenir - detailed map and population data (PDF; 376 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Pando - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 2.42 MB) ( Spanish )