Puerto Suárez
Puerto Suárez is a town in the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz.
Location in near space
Puerto Suárez is the administrative capital of the province of Germán Busch and central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Puerto Suárez. It lies at an altitude of 101 m to the lake, Laguna Cáceres, ten kilometers north-west of Puerto Quijarro away on the border with Brazil. The Laguna Cáceres is connected via the Tamengo channel with the important hydrographic network of Rio Paraguay and Rio Parana.
Geography
Puerto Suárez is located in the Bolivian part of the Pantanal, one of the largest inland wetlands in the world. A few kilometers south of the city, the mountains El Mutún is the largest iron and manganese concentration in the world.
The average annual temperature of the region is about 26 ° C, the monthly values vary 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 from June to August month rainfall below 30 mm, and a humidity season from November to March each about 100 mm month precipitation.
Traffic network
Puerto Suárez is located at a distance of 648 kilometers of road to the southeast of the department capital Santa Cruz.
Puerto Suárez is located on 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 and Santa Cruz to Puerto Suarez over to Puerto Quijarro at the border with Brazil leads.
Puerto Suárez is well connected via an airport and on the east-west running road and rail links with both the capital Santa Cruz de la Sierra, as well as with the Brazilian frontier.
Population
The city was founded on November 10, 1875 by Miguel Suárez Arana, and into the 1960s, the population did not exceed 2,000 inhabitants. Since then, the population has risen sharply: