Entre Ríos, Tarija

Entre Ríos ( Spanish for " between the rivers " ) is a country town in the department of Tarija in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location

Entre Ríos is a central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio), Entre Ríos and administrative capital of the Province Burnet O'Connor. It lies at an altitude of 1233 m at the mouth of the Río Cuesta Vieja in the Río Tambo, which flows downstream into the Río Tarija. The city is bounded by north- south running ridge and is located in an elongated, triangular valley of around 10 kilometers in length.

Geography

Entre Ríos is located in the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental in the transition region between the Bolivian Altiplano and the sparsely populated Gran Chaco lowlands. The climate is subtropical and characterized by a sharp contrast between dry season and rainy season.

The annual total precipitation is 800 mm (see climate chart Entre Ríos ), the months of May to October are arid with rainfall month of less than 15 mm, the summer months from December to March have NMonatswerte between 100 and 160 mm. The average annual temperature is 21.5 ° for Entre Ríos C, the monthly temperatures vary between 16 ° C in June and 25 ° C in January.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than double:

The region of Entre Ríos around is still one of the core areas of the settled the Paraná Basin for millennia Guaraní people.

Traffic network

Entre Ríos is located at a distance of 106 kilometers of road and a three-hour drive east of Tarija, the capital of the department.

Tarija is located on the highway Ruta 1, which crosses the Bolivian highlands from north to south and from Desaguadero to the Peruvian border of the cities of El Alto, Oruro and Potosí leads up to Bermejo on the Argentine border. Eight kilometers south-east of Tarija branches of the Ruta 11 to the east, which leads over to Entre Ríos Junacas and on about Palos Blancos, Villa Montes and Ibibobo after Cañada Oruro on the border with Paraguay.

In Villa Montes Ruta 11 crosses the highway Ruta 9, which connects the Bolivian lowlands of Guayaramerín very north over Santa Cruz with the border town Yacuíba in the south.

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