San Ramón, Beni

San Ramón is a country town in the Beni Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

San Ramón is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) San Ramon and in the canton of San Ramón in the province Mamoré. The city lies at an altitude of 139 m on the right bank of the Río Machupo, which drains to the Río Iténez out. East of the town of Lake Laguna Grande is with a length of 2.600 and a width of 1,600 meters.

Geography

San Ramón is located in the Moxos level, with more than 100,000 km ², one of the largest wetlands in the world. The dominant vegetation type in the region of San San Joaquín is the tropical savannah.

The temperature fluctuations are low, both during the day and during the year (see climate chart San Joaquin ). The annual average temperature is about 26 ° C, the monthly average temperatures are 24-29 ° C. The annual rainfall is about 1500 mm; the months of June to August are characterized by a dry season in which evaporate the low rainfall rapidly.

Traffic network

San Ramón is located at a distance of 211 kilometers of road north of Trinidad, capital of Beni Department.

By San Joaquin leads the 1631 km long highway Ruta 9, which crosses the entire Bolivian lowlands and Guayaramerin connects to the north on the Brazilian border with Yacuiba to the south by the Argentine border. It performs as an unpaved road from Guayaramerin between the border river Río Iténez and the Yata River to the south, crossing at Puerto Siles the Río Mamoré and reached over San Joaquín after another 88 miles of San Ramon. From there it continues along San Pedro Nuevo and San Javier to the department capital of Trinidad.

On the eastern edge of the city of San Ramón the Aeropuerto San Ramón is a 1930 m long dirt strip which bears the name SLRA in ICAO code.

Population

The population of the town has remained in the past two decades about the same, however, was increased by about one-third of the century: