Cachuela Esperanza
Cachuela Esperanza is a town in the Beni Department in the lowlands of the South American landlocked country like Bolivia.
Location in near space
Cachuela Esperanza ( " rapids of hope" ) is the central place of the Canton Cachuela Esperanza district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of Vaca Díez Guayaramerín. The village lies at an altitude of 118 m on the right bank of the rapids of the Rio Beni, 30 km before this combined with the Río Mamoré the Río Madeira.
History
The settlement site at the rapids of the Beni was discovered in 1846 by the Bolivian scientist José Agustín. Attracted by the rubber boom crossed in 1872, Nicolás Suárez along with his six brothers and built in the Andes Cachuela Esperanza the center of his Bolivian rubber empire, with branches in Acre, Manaus, Belém, and London. He had a theater and tennis courts build a luxury hotel overlooking the rapids and a modern hospital. Here was the first X-ray machine in Bolivia, and a seaplane millionaires from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo were flown. As the rubber was gradually replaced by synthetic rubber compounds in the 1920s, subsided, the importance of Cachuela Esperanza, and with the Bolivian revolution of 1952 sank the artificial jungle town finally into insignificance.
Geography
Cachuela Esperanza is located in the Bolivian lowlands near the border with the Republic of Brazil. The region has a year-round tropical - hot and humid climate.
The average annual temperature is 27.1 ° C (see climate chart Riberalta ), with the average monthly temperatures between June / July distinguish good 25 ° C and September / October with more than 28 ° C only slightly. The annual rainfall is nearly 2000 mm and is thus more than twice as high as the precipitation in Central Europe. Highs of nearly 300 mm in the months of December to February are faced with low values of less than 50 mm in June / August.
Population
The population of Cachuela Esperanza has risen in the past two decades by half:
Personalities
Most outstanding personality of the place in the past, the rubber king Nicolas Suárez Callau, in addition to the Zinnbaronen Patiño, Hochschild and Aramayo one of the most influential industrialist Bolivia. Cachulea Esperanza was also in 1925, birthplace of Eugene Gomringer, son of a Swiss father and a Bolivian, who is considered the father of concrete poetry.
Traffic network
Cachuela Esperanza is located 660 road miles north of Trinidad, the capital of the department of Beni.
From Cachuela Esperanza leads from a dirt road in a southeasterly direction, crossing the Río Yata and reached after 43 km ride through tropical forests and open bush land, the city Guayaramerín on the left bank of the Río Mamoré. Guayaramerín is the end of the 1631 km long highway Ruta 9, which begins in the south to the border with Argentina at Yacuiba and leads over Trinidad and San Ramón to Guayaramerín.
Rapids
The mighty rapids at Cachuela Esperanza interrupt the ship traffic on the Rio Beni 30 km above its mouth, and in the dry season tidal waves here can reach a height of up to 8 meters. Through an agreement between the State Governments of Bolivia and Brazil in 1984, plans were launched to tame through the construction of a hydroelectric power plant, the rapids and generate electricity for export to Brazil, but this project rests to this day.