Monteagudo is a small town in South Eastern Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. Its name is dedicated to Bernardo de Monteagudo Cáceres (1789-1825) who took part in the Chuquisaca revolution of 25 May 1809.

Location

Monteagudo is administrative center of the Hernando Siles Province

Hernando Siles Province

Hernando Siles is a province of the department of Chuquisaca, Bolivia. It has a population of 36.511 and covers an area of 5,473 km², giving it a population density of 6.67/km². Its capital is Monteagudo.- Subdivision :...

 in the Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.-Geography:...

. It is located in the Monteagudo Municipality

Monteagudo Municipality

Municipality Municipality is the first municipal section of Hernando Siles Province in the Chuquisaca Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Monteagudo.- Languages :...

 on the mouth of Río Sauces into Río Bañado, framed by mountain ridges running from North to South abounding with vegetation.

Climate

Monteagudo is situated in the humid, sub-Andean Chaco

Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region...

 of Bolivia. The months of July to September in the area are characterized by a distinct dry season

Dry season

The dry season is a term commonly used when describing the weather in the tropics. The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which oscillates from the northern to the southern tropics over the course of the year...

, while December and January can have heavy rainfalls.

Infrastructure

To the west, Monteagudo is connected with the capital of Sucre

Sucre

Sucre, also known historically as Charcas, La Plata and Chuquisaca is the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the department of Chuquisaca. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of 2750m...

 by the inner-Bolivian highway Ruta 6. As less than one third of the road is paved, coaches take eight hours for the distance of 326 km in dry weather, while in rainy weather the outcome of the journey is uncalculable.

To the north-east, Monteagudo is connected with Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the capital of the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia and the largest city in the country...

, the capital of the neighboring Santa Cruz Department

Santa Cruz Department

Santa Cruz, with an area of 370,621 km², is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia. In the 2001 census, it reported a population of 2,029,471. The capital is the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The state is one of the wealthiest states in Bolivia with huge reserves of...

. The unpaved Ruta 6 goes east to Ipati (104 km) and connects the town with highway Ruta 9, which leads north to Santa Cruz over another 255 km of paved road.

Population

The population of Monteagudo has increased strongly over the past decade, from 5,130 inhabitants (1992 census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

) to 7,285 (2001 census). Estimations about the population figures in 2008 differ strongly, from 7,500 to 10,501 inhabitants.

External links

• Detailed province map