Yesera Norte
| Yesera Norte | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 442 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 2293 m | ||
| Post Code | 06-0101-0400-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 21 ° 22 ′ S , 64 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Tarija | ||
| province | Province of Cercado | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Tarija |
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Yesera Norte is a town in the Tarija Department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Yesera Norte is the largest town in the Yesera canton in the municipality of Tarija in the province of Cercado . The village is located on the right, western bank of the Río Yesera, which flows downstream into the Río Santa Ana, a tributary of the Río Nuevo Guadalquivir .
geography
Yesera Norte is conveniently located between the different climate zones of the country on the edge of the Andes , so that the region usually has mild and pleasant weather (see Tarija climate diagram). In the rainy season between December and February (summer months) there are frequent torrential thunderstorms. The rest of the year is extremely low in precipitation.
The landscape has been eroded by the centuries of clearing and the region around Tarija is framed by bare mountain ranges. The area around Tarija used to be Bolivia's grain chamber. Today, in addition to agriculture, the region is rich in natural gas .
population
The population of the village has increased significantly in the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 362 | census |
| 2012 | 442 | census |
Transport network
Yesera Norte is forty kilometers by road northeast of Tarija , the capital of the department.
The highway Ruta 1 runs through Tarija in a north-south direction, which leads from Lake Titicaca on the border with Peru via El Alto , Oruro and Potosí to Tarija, and from there on to Bermejo on the border with Argentina .
Eight kilometers southeast of the city center of Tarija, the trunk road Ruta 11 branches off in an easterly direction from Ruta 1, and after thirteen kilometers from Ruta 11, shortly before crossing the Río Santa Ana, a secondary road branches off in a northerly direction to Yesera Norte . It reaches Yesera Centro after fourteen kilometers and Yesera Norte after another five kilometers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992 ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento from December 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012
Web links
- Relief map 6629-I of the San Lorenzo region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.02 MB)
- Relief map of the Tarija region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 5.07 MB)
- Municipio Tarija - General Maps No. 60101
- Municipio Tarija - detailed map and population data (PDF; 629 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Tarija - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 3.05 MB) ( Spanish )