Yaguacua
| Yaguacua | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 1323 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 647 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0301-0201-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | +591 (4) 68- | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 43 ′ S , 63 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Gran Chaco Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Yacuiba |
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Yaguacua is a town in the Tarija Department in southern Bolivia near the border with Argentina .
Location in the vicinity
Yaguacua is the third largest municipality in the canton of Caiza "J" in the northwestern part of the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Yacuiba in the province of Gran Chaco . The place is at an altitude of 647 m . The closest towns are Sachapera five kilometers north of Yaguacua and Caiza "J" ten kilometers south of the town. The mission school of the "Grupos María Madre del Buen Pastor y Ecos del Buen Pastor" belongs to Yaguacua and is located a few kilometers to the west on the edge of the foothills. The Voranden chain of Serranía Aguaragüe reaches heights of more than 1700 m here, for example in Cerro Sanandita directly west of the mission school.
geography
Yaguacua is located on the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Andes chain in the lowlands of the subtropical Gran Chaco , which extends over northwest Paraguay . Extends northeast Argentina and southeast Bolivia.
The climate is subtropical with hot humid summers and moderately warm and dry winters. The annual average temperature is almost 22 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate between 15 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C in January (see Yacuiba climate diagram). Annual precipitation is just under 1100 mm, with a four-month dry season from June to September with monthly precipitation below 15 mm and a humidity period from December to March with 160–200 mm monthly precipitation.
Transport network
Yaguacua is 304 kilometers by road southeast of Tarija , the capital of the department, and 45 kilometers north of the border town of Yacuiba.
From Tarija, the Ruta 11 trunk road leads east over the cities of Entre Ríos and Palos Blancos for 250 kilometers to Villamontes . There it meets the north-south running Ruta 9 , which leads south via Sachapera to Yaguacua and on via Yacuiba to the Argentine border.
population
The population of the village has increased by more than half in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 837 | census |
| 2012 | 1 323 | census |
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 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.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2017 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.
- ↑ 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
- Relief map of the Villamontes region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.68 MB)
- Municipio Yacuiba - General Maps No. 60301
- Municipio Yacuiba - detailed map and population data ( Spanish ) (PDF; 407 kB)
- Departamento Tarija - Social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 3.05 MB)