Cobija

Cobija is the capital of Pando department in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The university city of Cobija is located in the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of Cobija Nicolás Suárez, about 600 kilometers north of La Paz on the border with Brazil. Cobija lies at an altitude of approximately 205 m at the border river Rio Acre across from the Brazilian city Brasiléia.

Geography

Cobija lies in the southwestern part of the Amazon basin and is characterized by a humid tropical climate. The temperature fluctuations are low, both during the day and throughout the year. The humidity is high, so that it comes across large parts of the year again and again to heavy rain.

The Jahrsdurchschnittstmperatur at 25 ° C, the monthly values ​​vary between 23.5 ° C and 26.5 ° C. The annual rainfall of about 1750 mm is more than twice the rainfall in Central Europe. Only the months of June to August are characterized by a dry season in which the low rainfall evaporates rapidly until March fall of November average of more than 200 mm of rain.

History

Cobija was founded in 1906 by Coronel Enrique Cornejo under the name Bahía and received its current name in 1908 in remembrance the former Bolivian port city of Cobija (Lamar ) on the Pacific coast, which belongs to Chile saltpeter since. Cobija experienced in the 1940s heyday as the location of the rubber industry. With the collapse of the rubber boom also Cobija developed back and has taken a renewed upturn only in recent decades.

Population

The population of Cobija has risen in the past two decades to more than five times:

Traffic network

Cobija has two airports and is connected via the trunk road Ruta 13 to El Triangulo (El Choro ) in the department of Beni, which is not always passable in the rainy season with the rest of the country.