Uriondo

Valle de Concepción (also: Uriondo ) is a village in the department of Tarija in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Valle de Concepción is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Uriondo and administrative capital of the Province of José María Avilés. The village lies at an altitude of 1710 m at the confluence of Río Rochero and Río Camacho.

Geography

Valle de Concepción is located in southern Bolivia on the eastern slopes of the eastern Andes mountain range at the transition to the Bolivian lowlands.

The mean average temperature of the region is 19 ° C (see climate chart Tarija ), the average monthly temperatures range between 14 ° C in June and July and 22 ° C in December to March. The annual precipitation is about 550 mm, with a pronounced dry season from April to October month rainfall between 0 and 30 mm, and a humidity season from December to February month rainfall of about 120 mm.

Population

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

Traffic network

Valle de Concepción is located in the south at a distance of 25 kilometers of road from Tarija, the capital of the department.

From the capital city of Tarija from the paved highway Ruta 1 leads to the southeast towards the cities Padcaya and Bermejo. After seventeen kilometers from the main road branches off a paved road to the west, crossed by five kilometers, the valley of the Guadalquivir River and reached after a further three kilometers, the village of Valle de Concepción. From here, the road continues up the Río Camacho to the villages Chocloca, Juntas, Chaguaya, Cañas and Camacho.