San Buenaventura, La Paz

San Buenaventura (including San Buena Ventura ) is a country town in the department of La Paz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

San Buenaventura is a key point in that region ( bolivian: municipality ) in the Province of San Buenaventura Abel Iturralde. It lies at an altitude of 213 m on the left bank of the Río Beni, the border river to the Beni Department, opposite the town Rurrenabaque. West of the city rises the mountain of the Sierra de Manuque bolt that belongs to the eastern foothills of the Andes chain of the Cordillera Oriental.

Geography

San Buenaventura is located on the western edge of the Moxos level, with more than 100,000 km ², one of the largest wetlands in the world; dominant vegetation type in the Moxos level is the tropical savannah. The climate in the San Buena Ventura / Rurrenabaque is tropical, hot and humid all year round, but it can be in winter by the Surazo ( cold wind from the south) are relatively cool.

The annual rainfall is about 2000 mm (see climate chart Rurrenabaque ), with monthly rainfall of about 300 mm in January and February, and less than 100 mm in the months of August to September. The average monthly temperatures are year-round between 23 ° C and 28 ° C.

Traffic network

San Buenaventura is located southeast of the provincial capital, and about 450 kilometers north Ixiamas of La Paz, the capital of the department at a distance of 115 kilometers of road.

In Buenaventura completed a side branch of the 1036 km long highway Ruta 16, which runs from Porvenir near the Brazilian border in the northwest to the southeast edge Huarina of Lake Titicaca. The Ruta 16 happened on their way to the provincial capital Ixiamas, from the leads of a 115 km long dirt road on Tumupasa to San Buena Ventura.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to nearly twice:

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