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Paurito

Coordinates: 17°53′S 62°57′W / 17.883°S 62.950°W / -17.883; -62.950
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Paurito
Town
Paurito is located in Bolivia
Paurito
Paurito
Location of Paurito city in Bolivia
Coordinates: 17°52′49″S 62°56′39″W / 17.88028°S 62.94417°W / -17.88028; -62.94417
Country Bolivia
Department Santa Cruz Department
ProvinceAndrés Ibáñez Province
Elevation
1,168 ft (356 m)
Population
 (2009)
 • Total2,113
Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

Paurito is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean Plurinational State of Bolivia.

Location

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Paurito is the central town of Cantón Paurito and is located in Santa Cruz Municipality in Andrés Ibáñez Province. It is situated at an elevation of 356 m fourteen kilometers west of Río Grande, one of the largest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands.

Roads

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Paurito is located 27 kilometers south-east of the departmental capital Santa Cruz.
From Santa Cruz the tarmac road Ruta 4/Ruta 9 goes 18 km east to Cotoca and then to Puerto Pailas where it crosses the Río Grande and reaches Pailón on the river's eastern banks. From Pailón, Ruta 4 goes further east for another 587 km before it reaches Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, while Ruta 9 goes north to Guayaramerin after 1175 km.
At Cotoca, a dirt road leaves the Rutas 4/9 in a southern direction and reaches Paurito after sixteen kilometers.

Population

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The population of the place has increased rapidly over the past two decades as the following table shows:

Population
development
Year Inhabitants
1992[1] 1 027
2001[2] 1 548
2009[3] 2 113

Due to the population movements over the past decades, the region has a certain amount of Quechua population, in the Santa Cruz Municipality 12.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.

References

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17°53′S 62°57′W / 17.883°S 62.950°W / -17.883; -62.950