Cuevo

Cuevo is a village in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Cuevo is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Cuevo in the province of Cordillera. The village lies at an altitude of 1022 m on the left bank of the Río Cuevo flowing only intermittently, the seeps east of Boyuibe in the grasslands of the Gran Chaco.

Geography

Cuevo is in the range of winter damp subtropics, between the mountainous region of the Cordillera de Tajsara o Tarachaca the west and the Bolivian Chaco in the east.

The average annual temperature of the region is 23 ° C (see climate chart Cuevo ), the monthly values ​​vary between 18 ° C in June and July and 26 ° C between November and January. The climate is subhumid and has a distinct dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall of less than 20 mm; the annual rainfall is about 800 mm, from December to March monthly values ​​from 110 to 160 mm can be achieved.

Traffic network

Cuevo lies at a distance of 344 kilometers of road south of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz the paved highway Route 9 via Abapo and Ipitá after Boyuibe and another 187 kilometers to Yacuíba on the Bolivian southern border with Argentina. Twenty kilometers before Boyuibe branches from the Route 9 in a southwesterly direction a dirt road off, reached the Cuevo after fifteen kilometers.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by more than half: