Portachuelo

Portachuelo is a small town in the department of Santa Cruz in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia. Founding date of the city is the 8th Dezember 1770.

Location in near space

Portachuelo is the seat of the administration of the province Sara and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Portachuelo. The city is located in the southern part of the province Sara at an altitude of 301 m on the left bank of the Rio Pirai at the mouth of the Río Guenda.

Fifteen kilometers east of Portachuelo, on the other side of the Rio Pirai, Montero is the capital of the province Obispo Santistevan, a city of nearly 100,000 inhabitants.

Geography

Portachuelo is located in the humid tropical climate of the eastern edge of the Andes mountain range of the Cordillera Oriental. The region was covered before colonization by subtropical rainforest, but today it is mostly cultivated land.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 24 ° C (see climate chart Warnes ), the monthly values ​​vary between 20 ° C in June / July and 26 ° C from November to February. The annual rainfall is about 1300 mm, the monthly rainfall are productive and are between 35 mm and 200 mm in August in January.

Traffic network

Portachuelo lies at a distance of 75 kilometers of road northwest of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 4 via Warnes and Montero after Portachuelo, and from there 398 kilometers west to Cochabamba and again 376 km Tambo Quemado according to the Chilean border.

Population

The population of the town has increased over the past three and a half decades to approximately twice: