Paradero

Paradero 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

Paradero is the second largest town of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Puerto Suárez in the province of Germán Busch. The city lies at an altitude of 154 meters south of the town of Puerto Suarez on the southeast shore of Laguna Cáceres, which lies at a right tributary of the Paraguay River.

Geography

Paradero is located in the Bolivian part of the Pantanal, one of the largest inland wetlands in the world.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 26 ° C and varies only slightly between 22-23 ° C in June and July and 28-29 ° C from October to February. The annual rainfall is just over 1000 mm with a short dry season in June and August with monthly rainfall less than 30 mm, and a humidity season from November to March each about 100 mm month precipitation.

Traffic network

Paradero is located at a distance of 648 kilometers of road to the southeast of the department capital Santa Cruz.

By Paradero leads the 1,500 -kilometer highway Ruta 4, which has its beginning in Tambo Quemado to the Chilean border, crosses the entire country in west -east direction and Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Puerto Suárez Paradero and Puerto Quijarro by over the border into the Brazilian Corumbá.

In Paradero is the railway station " Puerto Suárez " of the east-west running railway line that runs from Santa Cruz to the border town of Puerto Quijarro.

Population

The population of the town has been subject to substantial fluctuations in the past two decades: