Campanero is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean Republic of

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Location

Campanero is the second largest town of ''Cantón Cotoca'' and is located in

Cotoca Municipality Cotoca is a canton and Municipality of Andrés Ibáñez Province in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. The municipality consists of two cantons – Cotoca itself and Puerto Pailas. In 2010 it had an estimated population of 23,951 for the canton and ...

Andrés Ibáñez Province Andrés Ibáñez Province is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department, situated in the western part of the department. Its capital is Santa Cruz de la Sierra which is also the capital of the department. The province was ...

. It is situated at an elevation of 343 m, eighteen kilometers west of

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, one of the largest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands.

Roads

Campanero is located 24 kilometers east of the departmental capital Santa Cruz.
From the centre of Santa Cruz, Avenue

Virgen de Cotoca The Virgen de Cotoca (literal translation: Virgin of Cotoca; figurative translation: Our Lady of Cotoca; variant: Blessed Virgin of Cotoco) is the patron saint for the Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia), Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Her ima ...

leads to the east, passes

Cotoca Cotoca is a canton and Municipality of Andrés Ibáñez Province in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. The municipality consists of two cantons – Cotoca itself and Puerto Pailas. In 2010 it had an estimated population of 23,951 for the canton and 56 ...

after 18 km and reaches Campanero after another six kilometers. From there, ''Ruta 4/Ruta 9'' goes on to

Puerto Pailas Puerto Pailas is a canton and town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia. Location Puerto Pailas is the central town of ''Puerto Pailas Cantón'' and is located in Cotoca Municipality in Andrés Ibáñez ...

where it crosses the Río Grande and reaches

Pailón Pailón is a small town in Bolivia. It is in the second municipal section of Chiquitos Province and is east of the city Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz de la Sierra (; "Holy Cross of the Mountain Range"), commonly known as Santa Cruz, is ...

on the river's eastern banks. From Pailón, ''Ruta 4'' goes further east for another 587 km before it reaches

Puerto Suárez Puerto Suárez is an inland river port and municipality in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia. It is located 10 km west of the border with Brazil. Location ''Puerto Suárez'' is located in the province of Germán Busch, Santa Cruz Department a ...

on the

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ian border, while ''Ruta 9'' goes north to Guayaramerin after 1175 km.

Population

The population of the town has increased rapidly over the past two decades: *1992: 930 inhabitants *2001: 2,212 inhabitants *2009: 3,020 inhabitants Due to the population movements over the past decades, the region has a certain amount of Quechua population, in Cotoca Municipality 17.8 percent of the population speak the

Quechua language Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common anc ...

.INE Social data Santa Cruz 2001

References

External links

{{coord, 17, 44, S, 62, 57, W, type:city, display=title Populated places in Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)