Paurito

Paurito is a village in the department of Santa Cruz in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Paurito is the central place of the Canton Paurito district ( bolivian: Municipio) Santa Cruz in the province of Andrés Ibáñez. The village lies at an altitude of 356 m fourteen kilometers to the west of Río Grande, one of the longest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands.

Geography

Paurito 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 1000 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

Paurito lies at a distance of 27 kilometers in a straight line south west of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 4/Ruta 9 leads in an easterly direction 18 miles to Cotoca and from there across the Río Grande to the town Pailón. There the two highways, the Ruta 4 performs over 587 km to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, and the Ruta 9 leads 1175 km north to Guayaramerin share.

In Cotoca a road branches off to the south of the Highway 4/9 and achieved after sixteen kilometers Paurito.

Population

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

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.