Puerto Siles

Puerto Siles is a town in the Beni Department in the lowlands of the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Puerto Siles is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Puerto Siles Mamoré and lies at an altitude of 138 m on the right bank of the Río Mamoré at the mouth of the Río Matucaré. A few kilometers west of the village on the opposite side of the river lies the Laguna Las Habras, a natural lake ten miles long and eight miles wide.

Geography

Puerto Siles is the Moxos level, with more than 100,000 km ², one of the largest wetlands in the world. The dominant vegetation type in the region of Puerto Siles is the tropical savannah.

The temperature fluctuations are low, both during the day and during the year, the annual average temperature is about 26 ° C, the monthly average temperatures are 24-29 ° C (see climate chart San Joaquin ). The annual rainfall of about 1500 mm similar to the rainfall in many parts of the Alpine area at twice the average over the area of Central Europe annual precipitation. Only the months of June to August are characterized by a dry season in the low rainfall evaporate quickly.

Traffic network

Puerto Siles is located at a distance of 297 kilometers of road north of Trinidad, the capital of the department of the same name.

By Trinidad leads the 1631 km long highway Route 9, which runs from Yacuiba to the Argentine border in the south to Guayaramerin on the Brazilian border in the north- east of the Republic. The Ruta 9 leads from Yacuiba from about Villa Montes and Santa Cruz to Trinidad and on about San Ramon and San Joaquin to Puerto Siles. 35 km before Puerto Siles in La Morona leads a 85 km long branch of Route 9 in a northeasterly direction to Puerto Ustarez on the Brazilian border. In Puerto Siles the Ruta 9 crosses the river and continues across Paraíso and Las abras to Guayaramerin.

Population

The population of the town has declined in the last two decades by about a quarter: