Camargo (Chuquisaca)

Camargo is a town in the department of Chuquisaca in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Camargo is a central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Camargo and seat of the administration of the province Nor Cinti. The city is surrounded by north- south running mountain bars at an altitude of 2,421 m on the Rio Chico, downstream to the Rio Grande de Cinti flows (Río Tumusla and Río Cotagaita ). Further south of this river combined with the Río San Juan del Oro to the Río Camblaya, the downstream Rio Pilaya then goes on to say, and finally empties into the Río Pilcomayo.

Geography

Camargo is located on the southwestern slopes of the Bolivian Cordillera Central, between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east. The climate is cool temperate mountain climate with typical diurnal climate where the average temperatures fluctuate more during the day than during the year.

The average annual temperature in the region is just under 14 ° C (see climate chart Camargo ), the monthly average values ​​vary between some 10 ° C in June / July and 16 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 400 mm and has seven arid months from April to October with monthly values ​​below 20 mm, significant monthly rainfall is only from December to February, with values ​​of 80-90 per mm.

Traffic network

Camargo is located at a distance of 350 kilometers of road south of Sucre, the capital of the department.

By Camargo, the 1215 km long highway Ruta 1, which runs from the Peruvian border on Lake Titicaca in the north to the Argentine border in the south runs. In the area Camargo between the 146 km northern Cuchu Ingenio in the province of José María Linares and 167 km southeast to Santa Barbara in the province Eustaquio Méndez the road is a gravel - or Erdtrasse.

Since 2005, the route Cuchu Ingenio is also at asphalting - Pampa de Iscayachi built (40 kilometers from Tarija ). An approximately 100 -kilometer section between Camargo and Iscayachi has already been completed. ( As of June 29 2010)

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past two decades by about two-thirds: