El Carmen Rivero Tórrez

El Carmen Rivero Tórrez is a country town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

El Carmen Rivero Tórrez is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Carmen Rivero Tórrez in the province of Germán Busch. The city lies at an altitude of 152 m on the east-west running railway line that runs from Santa Cruz to Puerto Quijarro on the Bolivian- Brazilian border.

Geography

El Carmen Rivero Tórrez is located in the Bolivian part of the Pantanal, one of the largest inland wetlands in the world. North of the city rises up to 346 m of the high ridges of the Serrania del Cármen, a southeastern continuation of the Serranía Santiago of Roboré. South of El Carmen extends the wetlands of the Pozo de Soleta, which is fed from the northwest by the River Otuquis.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 26 ° C (see climate chart Puerto Suárez ) and varies only slightly between 22-23 ° C in June and July and 28-29 ° C from October to February. The annual rainfall is just over 1000 mm with a short dry season in June and August with monthly rainfall less than 30 mm, and a humidity season from November to March each about 100 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

El Carmen Rivero Tórrez lies at a distance of 555 kilometers of road southeast of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

The city is located on the 1,500 -kilometer highway Ruta 4, which assumes the Chilean border their start in Tambo Quemado, crosses in west-east direction of the entire country and Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Roboré and El Carmen to Puerto Suárez and Puerto Quijarro leads and the Brazilian border in the city Corumbá.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about a third: