Villamontes
| Villamontes | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 30,228 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 25 | ||
| height | 388 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0303-0100-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 16 ′ S , 63 ° 28 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Villamontes |
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Villamontes (also: Villa Montes ) is a medium-sized town in the Tarija department in the extreme south of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Villamontes is the central place of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Villamontes in the province of Gran Chaco . The city lies at an altitude of 388 m above sea level on the left bank of the Río Pilcomayo , where the river breaks through the ridge of the Serranía Aguaragüe and flows in a south-easterly direction into the Chaco foothills. The city is traversed by the Río Caiguami, which flows into the Río Pilcomayo on the southern outskirts .
geography
To the west of the city extends the north-south running Voranden chain of Serranía Aguaragüe , which reaches an altitude of almost 1,400 m seven kilometers west of Villamontes.
Villamontes is located in the humid tropics and has a clear dry season from June to September (see Villamontes climate diagram), the climate is semi-humid .
history
Villamontes emerged from the San Antonio and San Fernando mission stations at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the headquarters of the Bolivian Army during the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932–1935) . During the last phase of the war, the main axis of defense ran through the counterattack commanded by General Bernardino Bilbao Rioja .
Villamontes was also known through the so-called "Corralito de Villamontes" (1934) when the President of the Republic, Dr. Daniel Salamanca Urey , arrested by army units during a visit to the city and replaced by Vice President José Luis Tejada Sorzano in a coup on November 28, 1934 .
population
The city's population has increased several times over in the past three and a half decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 629 | census |
| 1992 | 11 086 | census |
| 2001 | 16 113 | census |
| 2012 | 30 228 | census |
The cause of this explosive population growth is the development of oil and gas fields , which began in the early 1990s.
Transport network
Villamontes is located at a distance of 251 kilometers by road east of Tarija , the capital of the department.
To get from Tarija to Villamontes, first follow the Ruta 1 trunk road , which leads from Tarija in a south-easterly direction. After eight kilometers, the Ruta 11 road branches off to the east, reaching the town of Villamontes after 243 kilometers via Junacas Sur , Entre Ríos and Palos Blancos . The Ruta 11 then continues east via Ibibobo to Cañada Oruro , the border station on the border with Paraguay .
In a north-south direction, Villamontes is connected to the entire Bolivian lowlands via the Ruta 9 highway , because this main road crosses the lowlands from Yacuiba on the Argentine border in the south via Santa Cruz and Trinidad to Guayaramerín on the Brazilian border in the far north .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population
- ^ 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 March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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
- Relief map 6930-III of the Villamontes region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 606 kB)
- Relief map of the Villamontes region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.68 MB)
- Municipio Villamontes - General Maps No. 60303
- Municipio Villamontes - detailed map and population data (PDF; 896 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )