Camiri

Camiri is a town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Camiri is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Camiri in the province of Cordillera. The village lies at an altitude of 811 m on the right bank of the Río Parapeti in a basin of the Sierra Caro Huayco, one of the southeastern Voranden chains of Bolivia.

Geography

Camiri is in the range of the tropical climate, the six-month period humidity ranges from November to April and the dry season from May to October. The average annual temperature is 22.9 ° C, 17 ° to 18 ° C from June to July and about 26 ° C from November to December. The annual precipitation is 875 mm, wettest months are December and January with 175 mm and driest months of July and August with only 9 mm.

Traffic network

Camiri is located 292 kilometers by road south of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Santa Cruz the paved highway Route 9 leads south to Camiri, and from there another 258 km further south to Yacuíba on the Argentine border.

Camiri has a small airport and a bus station, drive from where intercity buses to Santa Cruz, and Sucre Yacuíba. Intra local public transport is done with mini - buses and ( radio ) taxis.

Close to the city center is to find a fairly large and well-stocked market, to acquire the food, household and fabric goods, craft items, etc..

Population

The population of the city has increased significantly as a whole over the past three and a half decades, although the mid-1990s, the population due to the privatization of the oil industry and related reduction in the workforce was in the meantime declined somewhat: