El Puente Municipality, Santa Cruz
El Puente is a country town in the department of Santa Cruz in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.
Location in near space
El Puente is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) El Puente in the province of Guarayos in the northwestern part of the department of Santa Cruz. The city lies at an altitude of 299 m seven kilometers east of the current flowing to the north Río San Julián, who bears the name Río and Pablo Río Itonomas in its further course and drained to the Río Iténez out.
Geography
El Puente is located in the Moxos level ( Llanos de Moxos ), one of more than 100,000 square kilometers of flood savannah in the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The region's climate is a semi- humid climate of the warm tropics.
The mean average temperature of the region is about 25 ° C (see climate chart San Ramón ), the monthly values fluctuate during the year only slightly between 21-22 ° C during the winter months of June and July with strong cold southerly winds, and 26 to 27 ° C from October to March. The annual rainfall is in the long -term average at about 1000 mm, which falls mainly in the humidity from November to March, while the arid months from July to September have monthly values between 25 and 50 mm.
Traffic network
El Puente is located at a distance of 253 kilometers of road north of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz leads from the paved highway Ruta 4 about 47 kilometers east across Cotoca after Pailón. Here she meets the Ruta 9, which arrives in a northerly direction over Los Troncos, San Julián and San Ramón after 206 kilometers of El Puente. The Ruta 9 then continues on Ascension de Guarayos and Trinidad in the extreme northeast of the country after Guayaramerín on the Brazilian border.
Population
The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to about three times:
Because of the 1960s funded by the immigration policy indigenous people of the Altiplano, it presents a significant proportion of the Quechua population in the municipality of El Puente 22.4 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.