Puerto Villarroel

Puerto Villarroel is a country town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Puerto Villarroel is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Puerto Villarroel in the province of Carrasco. The city lies at an altitude of 195 m on the left bank of the Río Ichilo that and this continues to flow into the Río Mamoré to Amazon.

Geography

Puerto Villarroel is located in the Bolivian lowlands before the northern edge of the Cordillera Oriental. The climate is tropical with a pronounced diurnal climate.

The average annual temperature in the long-term average is 25 ° C (see climate chart Puerto Villarroel ), the monthly temperatures range from just under 22 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from November to February. The climate of the region is vollhumid, with an annual precipitation of 2,500 mm, only the months of July to September rain poorer, in the summer months from December to March fall regularly from 300 to 400 mm of precipitation.

Traffic network

Puerto Villarroel is located at a distance of 251 kilometers of road northeast of the capital of the department of Cochabamba.

Near Puerto Villarroel performs the 1657 km long highway Ruta 4 past that leads from Tambo Quemado on the Chilean border to the east across the country to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border. From Cochabamba to reach Puerto Villarroel about Villa Tunari, Chimoré and Ivirgarzama, remote road continues after Warnes and Santa Cruz. In Ivirgarzama the only 27 -kilometer paved highway Ruta 15 branches off in a northeasterly direction to Puerto Villarroel.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about a fifth:

Due to the historically evolved population development, it presents a significant proportion of indigenous population in the municipality of Puerto Villarroel 82.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.