Pailón

Pailón is a small town in the department of Santa Cruz in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Pailón is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Chiquitos Pailón and lies at an altitude of 291 m. West of Pailón flows the Río Grande, is beyond the Rio Grande, the metropolis of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Geography

Pailón is located in the Bolivian lowlands between the alluvial plains of the Rio Pirai and Rio Grande in the west and the Chiquitos hill country to the east. The climate is subhumid, temperatures fluctuate throughout the day and during the year only marginally.

The average annual temperature is 24 to 25 ° C, with average monthly temperatures ranging from 27 ° C in December and January and 21 ° C in June and July (see climate chart ). The annual rainfall is around 950 mm, the dry season from July to September, where a pronounced moisture from November to February from where the monthly values ​​reach up to 140 mm.

Traffic network

Pailón lies at a distance of 61 kilometers of road east of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

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.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to more than four-fold: