Puerto Teresa Rio Yata

Santa Teresa del Yata (also: Puerto Teresa Rio Yata ) is a town in the Beni Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Santa Teresa del Yata is a village in the administrative district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of Santa Rosa Ballivián. The village lies at an altitude of 162 m on the left bank of the Río Yata, it flows in an easterly direction and flows 900 km downstream in the Río Mamoré. About fifty miles from Santa Teresa is found in a south-westerly direction at the village of El Triunfo, a number of lakes, the largest of which 155 square kilometers of Rogagua Lake is a popular destination for tourists in the region.

Geography

Santa Teresa del Yata is located in the Bolivian part of the Amazon basin east of the mountain ranges of the country in a year-round humid climate.

The average annual temperature of the region is 26 ° C (see climate chart Rurrenabaque ) and varies only slightly between 23 ° C in June and July and about 27 ° C from October to December. The annual rainfall is about 2000 mm, with a pronounced rainy season from December to March with 200 to 300 mm month precipitation and lowest monthly values ​​just below 100 mm from July to September.

Traffic network

Southeast of Santa Teresa del Yata and 561 road kilometers is Trinidad, the capital of the department.

From Trinidad from the largely unpaved highway Route 3 runs in a southwesterly direction through San Ignacio de Moxos and San Borja to Yucumo. From there, the Ruta 8 direction leads more than 99 kilometers to the north-west to Rurrenabaque, thence in a northeasterly again about 97 km Reyes to Santa Rosa de Yacuma. From there it is again 84 km in a north-easterly direction to the Rio Yata, which they crossed on a newly constructed bridge at Santa Teresa del Yata.

In its extension, the road reached after further 415 kilometers in the north-eastern part of the city Guayaramerin the Río Mamoré on the border with Brazil.

Population

The population of the town has fallen dramatically in the past two decades: