Ivirgarzama

Ivirgarzama is a small town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Ivirgarzama is the most populous city of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Puerto Villarroel in the province of Carrasco. The city lies at an altitude of 218 m on the left bank of the Río Ivirgarsamla which flows north to the Río Ichilo.

Geography

Ivirgarzama is located in the Bolivian lowlands to the north-eastern foothills of the Cordillera Oriental.

The region has an average annual temperature of 24 ° C (see climate chart Villa Tunari ), the monthly average values ​​are between about 26 ° C from October to December and 20 ° C in June and July. The average annual rainfall is more than 1000 mm, the humidity period extends from November to February, the months of July and August fall with less than 50 mm from rather dry.

Traffic network

Ivirgarzama lies at a distance of 224 kilometers of road northeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department.

By Cochabamba leads the 1657 km long highway Ruta 4, which runs from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border to the east across the country to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border. From Cochabamba to reach Ivirgarzama about Villa Tunari and Chimoré, remote road continues after Warnes and Santa Cruz. In Ivirgarzama the 27 km long paved highway Ruta 15 branches off in a northeasterly direction to Puerto Villarroel.

The Bolivian government is pursuing plans for a 102 km long railway line between the production sites Ivirgarzama and Yapacaní in the neighboring department of Santa Cruz to the city of Santa Cruz and beyond to connect the Ivirgarzama region with northern Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Population

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

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Puerto Villarroel 83.5 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.