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Montero Hoyos

Coordinates: 17°38′S 62°49′W / 17.633°S 62.817°W / -17.633; -62.817
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Montero Hoyos
Town
Montero Hoyos is located in Bolivia
Montero Hoyos
Montero Hoyos
Location of Montero Hoyos city in Bolivia
Coordinates: 17°38′26″S 62°49′02″W / 17.64056°S 62.81722°W / -17.64056; -62.81722
Country Bolivia
Department Santa Cruz Department
ProvinceAndrés Ibáñez Province
Population
 (2009)
 • Total2,064
Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

Montero Hoyos is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.

Location

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Montero Hoyos is the central town of Cantón Montero Hoyos and is located in Santa Cruz Municipality in Andrés Ibáñez Province. It is situated at an elevation of 303 m on the left banks of the Río Grande.

Roads

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Montero Hoyos is located 51 kilometers north-east of the departmental capital Santa Cruz. From Santa Cruz the tarmac road Ruta 4/Ruta 9 goes east through Cotoca and Puerto Pailas before 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 Puerto Pailas, a dirt road leaves the Rutas 4/9 in north-westerly direction for another 4 km to Montero Hoyos.

Population

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The population of the place has increased rapidly over the past two decades.
The town had 985 inhabitants at the 1992 census,[1] then 1,512 at the 2001 census,[2] and has now 2,064 inhabitants (2009 est.).[3]
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.

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17°38′S 62°49′W / 17.633°S 62.817°W / -17.633; -62.817