San MatÃas, Santa Cruz
Las Peta is a village in the department of Santa Cruz in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.
Location in near space
Las Peta is the central place of the Canton of San Peta's district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of San Matías Ángel Sandoval. The village lies at an altitude of 142 m five miles south of the Bolivian border with Brazil.
Geography
Las Peta lies on the eastern edge of the Bolivian lowlands in the wetlands of the Pantanal in South America and has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile on.
The mean average temperature of the region is 27 ° C (see climate chart San Matías ), the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 24 ° C in June / July and 29 ° C in November / December. The annual rainfall is about 1250 mm, with the months of June to September, with monthly rainfall of less than 50 mm are arid, during the months of December to February have values of around 200 mm.
Traffic network
Las Peta lies at a distance of 616 kilometers of road northeast of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz leads from the paved highway Ruta 4 over 57 kilometers to the north over Warnes to Montero. A few kilometers north of Montero it meets the Ruta 10 which runs eastwards for a distance of 648 kilometers and the towns of San Ramón, San Javier and Santa Rosa de Roca crosses the asphalt road. On the remaining 370 kilometers above San Ignacio de Velasco and San Vicente to the border town of San Matías, the road is unpaved. Las petas is 100 kilometers behind San Vicente and 91 kilometers from San Matías.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than double: