Puerto Rico (El Torno)

Puerto Rico is a country town in the department of Santa Cruz in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location

Puerto Rico is the third largest city of the county ( bolivian: Municipio) El Torno in the province of Andrés Ibáñez. The city lies at an altitude of 542 m directly south on the right bank of the River Pirai then to the city of El Torno.

Geography

Puerto Rico is located in the humid tropical climate on 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 24 ° C, the annual precipitation is 950 mm (see climate chart La Angostura ). The monthly average temperatures vary between 20 ° C in July and 26 ° C in December and January, the monthly rainfall is productive from November to March and higher than 100 mm, the climate from June to September is arid with rainfall less than 40 mm.

Traffic network

Puerto Rico lies at a distance of 35 kilometers of road south west of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From the center of Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 7 performs as a four-lane " Grigota Avenue " in a southwesterly direction through the towns of El Carmen, La Guardia and El Torno to Puerto Rico, and from there on La Angostura, Samaipata and Comarapa to Cochabamba.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to a multiple of:

Due to immigration from the Altiplano in the second half of the 20th century, the region has a significant share of Quechua population in the municipality of El Torno 27.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.