Bermejo, Bolivia

Bermejo is a town in the department of Tarija in the southern part of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Bermejo is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Bermejo and largest city of the province Aniceto Arce. It lies on the border with Argentina on the right bank of the Río Bermejo at an altitude of 419 m.

Geography

Bermejo is at the southeastern edge of the Bolivian Andean chain in the transition to the Gran Chaco, which covers northwestern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina and southeastern Bolivia. The climate is subtropical with hot humid summers and moderately warm and dry winter.

The average annual temperature is 21 ° C, the average monthly values ​​vary between 14 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C in December and January (see climate chart Bermejo ). The annual rainfall is about 950 mm, with a six -month dry season from May to October and a humidity from December to March, more than 150 mm monthly rainfall.

Population

The population of the city of Bermejo has risen in the past 35 years to nearly three times:

Traffic network

Bermejo is located at a distance of 210 kilometers of road south-east of Tarija, the capital of the department.

From Bermejo from the northwest leads the paved highway Ruta 1 on Padcaya and Valle de Concepción to the capital Tarija. The Ruta 1 crosses from there in a northerly direction the entire Bolivian Altiplano and runs through the cities of Potosí, Oruro and El Alto to Desaguadero on the Peruvian border.

Bermejo is also northeast across the Ruta 33 after Caraparí and the local stretch of the Ruta 29 is connected to Campo Pajoso with the lowland highway Ruta 9, at from Yacuíba in the south of the city of Santa Cruz all the way north to Guayaramerín in Beni lowlands leads the Brazilian border.

To the south Bermejo is connected to the Argentinian side of the Ruta Nacional 50 cities with the Northern Argentina Aguas Blancas and Pichanal.