Villamontes

Villa Montes (also: Villa Montes ) is a town in the department of Tarija in the extreme south of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Villa Montes is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Villa Montes in the province of Gran Chaco. The city lies at an altitude of 388 m above sea level on the left bank of the Pilcomayo River, where the river breaks through the ridge of the Serranía Aguaragüe and flows in a southeasterly direction in the Chaco foreland. The city is drained by the Río Caiguami, which flows into the Pilcomayo River on the southern outskirts.

Geography

West of the city extends north- south running Voranden chain of the Serranía Aguaragüe that reaches seven kilometers west of Villa Montes a height of almost 1400 m.

Villa Montes lies in the humid tropics and has a distinct dry season from June to September (see climate chart Villa Montes ), the climate is subhumid.

History

Villa Montes was during the Chacokrieges between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935) seat of the headquarters of the Bolivian army. During the last phase of the war here was the main axis of the defense by the commanded by General Bernardino Bilbao Rioja counterattack.

Villa Montes was also supported by the so-called " Corralito de Villa Montes " (1934 ) known as the President of the Republic, Dr. Daniel Salamanca Urey, during a visit to the city established by army units and on 28 November 1934 in a coup by the Vice President José Luis Tejada Sorzano was replaced.

Population

The population of the city has increased in the past three and a half decades to several times:

Cause of this explosive population growth has been the development of oil and gas fields, which started since the beginning of the 1990s.

Traffic network

Villa Montes lies at a distance of 251 kilometers of road west of Tarija, the capital of the department.

To get from Tarija to Vill Montes, one first follows the highway Ruta 1, which runs from Tarija in the south-east. After eight kilometers branches off to the east from the highway Ruta 11, which reaches over Junacas, Entre Ríos and Palos Blancos the city Villa Montes after 243 kilometers. The Ruta 11 then continues east across Ibibobo after Cañada Oruro, the frontier station on the border with Paraguay.

In a north-south direction Villa Montes on the highway Ruta 9 is connected to the entire Bolivian lowlands, because this highway crosses the lowlands of Yacuíba on the Argentine border in the south over Santa Cruz and Trinidad all the way to Guayaramerín on the Brazilian border in the far north.