YacuÃba
Yacuíba is a town in the department of Tarija in the southern part of the South American Andean State of Bolivia, close to the border with Argentina.
Location in near space
The city lies at an altitude 620-680 m on the eastern edge of the Andean high mountain on the railway line between the cities of Santa Cruz in Bolivia and Salta in Argentina.
Yacuíba is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Yacuíba and capital of the province of Gran Chaco. It is located east of the capital Tarija, south of Villa Montes and north of the Tartagal Aerodrome. The city has an international airport with the International Airport Code BYC.
Geography
Yacuíba has a warm temperate climate with a pronounced rainy season from December to March with uniformly high temperatures and a dry season in the southern winter from June to September with warm day and cool night temperatures.
Population
The population of the town on the Bolivian- Argentine border has grown rapidly:
Traffic network
Yacuíba is located 279 kilometers by road from Tarija, the capital of the department.
To get to Tarija, it follows from Yacuíba of 15 kilometers of the highway Ruta 9 to the village of Campo Pajoso. There, the Ruta 29 branches off to the northwest and reached after 83 kilometers above the town of Palos Blancos Caraparí. The road meets here on the Ruta 11, which leads to coming from the border with Paraguay on Villa Montes and Palos Blancos in a westerly direction to Tarija, where she meets eight kilometers from Tarija on the Ruta 1. About this Yacuíba Ruta 1 is then connected to the major cities of the highlands, with Potosí, Oruro, El Alto and La Paz
If one of the Ruta 9 further follows Campo Pajoso addition to the north, opening up on this highway and the entire Bolivian lowlands, because the Ruta 9 via the Departamento main cities of Santa Cruz and Trinidad until after Guayaramerín on the border with Brazil in the extreme northeast of the country.
Tourism
The city Yacuiba forms, together with Poconé (Brazil ) the starting point for visits to the Pantanal, one of the largest inland wetlands in the world.
Largest annual ceremony in Yacuiba is the " FESTIFRONT ".