Montero Hoyos

Montero Hoyos 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

Montero Hoyos is the central place of the Canton Montero Hoyos district ( bolivian: Municipio) Santa Cruz in the province of Andrés Ibáñez. The city lies at an altitude of 303 m on the right bank of the Río Grande, one of the longest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands, which has a width of 2,300 meters at this point.

Geography

Montero Hoyos is located in the Bolivian lowlands east of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Central.

The mean average temperature of the region is 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1,000 mm (see climate chart Santa Cruz ). The region has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December. The monthly rainfall range from less than 50 mm during the months of July and August and about 150 mm in January.

Traffic network

Montero Hoyos is located at a distance of 51 kilometers of road southwest of the capital of the department of Santa Cruz near the town of Puerto Pailas.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 9 4/Ruta leads eastwards across Cotoca to Puerto Pailas, crossed the Rio Grande and divides 14 km later in Pailón. From here, the Ruta 4 about 587 km to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, the Ruta 9 leads 1175 km north to Guayaramerin. In Puerto Pailas a road branches off to the northwest of the Highway 4/9 and achieved after four kilometers Montero Hoyos.

Population

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

Due to the historically grown influx of migrants, the region has a certain amount of Quechua population in the municipality of Santa Cruz 12.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.