Roboré
Roboré is a small town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia. The city was founded on February 16, 1916 Ángel Sandoval Peña, the development officer of the Bolivian government for the little undeveloped lowland.
Location in near space
Roboré is the central place of the district ( bolivian: municipality ) in the province of Chiquitos Roboré and lies at an altitude of 261 m on the southern edge of the municipios. To the south is the Laguna Lake Sucuara, which is fed from the north by the Río San Carlos, below the town bears the name Río Roboré and then to the Río San Rafael is, before it flows into the Río Aguas Calientes, which in turn with it the Río Tucavaca united to the Río Otuquis, which further flows to the southeast of the city of El Carmen Rivero Tórrez.
Geography
Roboré is located in the Bolivian lowlands between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central in the west and the Brazilian border in the east. To the north and east of the city runs the ridge of the Serranía Santiago, which reaches just northeast of Roboré a height of 1,230 m.
The mean average temperature of the region is 26 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 1100 mm (see climate chart Roboré ). The region has a tropical climate with a balanced temperature profile, the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between 22 ° C in June and 28 ° C from October to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 35 mm during the months of July and August and about 160 mm in December and January.
Traffic network
Roboré lies at a distance of 445 kilometers of road east of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.
From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Ruta 4 leads eastwards across Cotoca, Pailón and San José de Chiquitos after Roboré. From here, the Ruta 4 leads on further 203 km to Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border. By Roboré a single track over long distances by train, which connects Santa Cruz with Puerto Suárez runs.
Population
The population of the city has almost doubled in the 1980s, but has since remained virtually unchanged: