Yaguarú

Yaguarú is a country town in the department of Santa Cruz in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Yaguarú is the second largest city of the county ( bolivian: Municipio) Urubicha in the province Guarayos in the northwestern part of the department of Santa Cruz. The city lies at an altitude of 198 m on the left bank of the flowing northward Río Zapoco, which flows into its further course across the Río Blanco in the Río Iténez / Guaporé, which forms the border between Brazil and the Bolivian northeast over long distances.

Geography

Yaguarú is (Spanish: Llanos de Moxos ) in the Moxos level, a more than 100,000 square kilometers of flood savannah in the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The region's climate is a semi- humid climate of the warm tropics.

The mean average temperature of the region is about 25 ° C (see climate chart Urubicha ) and varies only slightly between 22 ° C in June and July and 27 ° C from October to February. The annual rainfall is about 1150 mm, with a weak dry season from June to September, with monthly rainfall of 45 mm, and a significant moisture from November to March, monthly rainfall between 140 and 200 mm.

Traffic network

Yaguarú lies at a distance of 326 kilometers of road north of Santa Cruz, the capital of the department.

From Santa Cruz from the paved highway Route 9, together with the Ruta 4 first in an easterly direction over Cotoca to Puerto Pailas, crossed the Rio Grande and separates fourteen miles later in Pailón. From here, the Ruta leads 9230 km north to Ascension de Guarayos and on to Guayaramerín in the extreme northeast of the country. On the northern outskirts of Ascención branches off a dirt road from the north direction and reached after 35 kilometers Yaguarú.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by about 65 percent:

Due to the centuries-old regional population structures, the region has a high percentage of indigenous population in the municipality of Urubicha 91.0 percent of the population speak local languages ​​Chiquitano.