Villa Simón Bolívar

Villa Simon Bolívar is a town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Villa Simon Bolívar until the year 2012, the second largest city of the canton of La Guardia in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) La Guardia in the province of Andrés Ibáñez. The city lies at an altitude of 485 m on the right bank of the River Pirai. As of the census of 2012, the city Villa Simón Bolívar is no longer listed as a separate town, but now a borough of the city of La Guardia.

Geography

Villa Simon Bolivar is located in the humid tropical climate on the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental. The region was covered before colonization by subtropical rainforest, but today it is mostly cultivated land. The mean average temperature of the region is just under 25 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1300 mm. The monthly average temperatures vary between 20 ° C in July and 28 ° C in December, the monthly rainfall are productive and are between 40 mm and 200 mm in August in January.

Traffic network

From the center of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department, leads the paved highway Ruta 7 as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " Twelve kilometers south-westerly direction to the junction of Route 9 in a southeasterly direction. Two kilometers past the turnoff lies Villa Simón Bolívar left the Ruta 7, the road continues through the center of La Guardia continue to Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to a multiple of: