Montero Hoyos
Montero Hoyos | |
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Town | |
  Montero Hoyos Location of Montero Hoyos city in Bolivia | |
| Coordinates: 17°38′26″S 62°49′02″W / 17.64056°S 62.81722°W | |
| Country |  Bolivia |
| Department |  Santa Cruz Department |
| Province | Andrés Ibáñez Province |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 2,064 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (BOT) |
Montero Hoyos is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.
Location
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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.