Loreto (Beni)

Loreto is a town in the Beni Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Loreto is the seat of the administration of the province Marbán and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Loreto. The village lies at an altitude of 161 m on the right, the eastern shore of the Río Mamoré and about twenty kilometers away from this. Loreto is located southeast of Trinidad, the capital of the department.

Geography

Loreto is located in the Bolivian lowlands in the river plain of the Río Mamoré and has a year-round tropical hot and humid climate.

The average annual temperature is 26 ° C, with the average monthly temperatures between June / July of nearly 28 ° C differ only slightly with just over 23 ° C and October / December (see climate chart Trinidad ). The annual rainfall is nearly 2000 mm and is thus more than twice as high as the precipitation in Central Europe. Maximum values ​​to February are about 300 mm in the months of December low values ​​of about 50 mm in July / August over.

Traffic network

Loreto is located at a distance of 55 kilometers of road south-east of Trinidad and is reached via a dirt road link.

From Trinidad from a country road leads 36 km to the southeast at the Laguna SOAREZ over to San Andrés, from there branches off a country road in a southwesterly direction from, crosses the Río Ibare and reached after 19 kilometers Loreto.

Population

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