Magdalena is a town on the

Itonomas River The Itonomas River is a river of Bolivia that flows through the departments of Santa Cruz and Beni. It is a part of the Amazon River basin. Course Originating near Concepción Lake at the confluence of the intermittent Quimome and Santa Maria Ri ...

in the

Beni Department Beni (), sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country (after Santa Cruz), covering 213,564 square kilometers (82,458 sq mi), and it was cre ...

in northern

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, capital of the Iténez Province and the Magdalena Municipality. It is served by

Magdalena Airport Magdalena Airport is an airport serving Magdalena, a town on the Itonomas River in the Beni Department of Bolivia. The runway is on the western edge of the town. The Magdalena non-directional beacon (Ident: MGD) is located on the field. See al ...

History

The

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of Santa María Magdalena (or Santa Magdalena) was founded in 1720..

Itonama Itonama is a moribund language isolate spoken by the Itonama people in the Amazonian lowlands of north-eastern Bolivia. Greenberg’s (1987) classification of Itonama as Paezan, a sub-branch of Macro-Chibchan, remains unsupported and Itonama co ...

Indians resided at the mission.Meireles, Denise Maldi. 1989.
Guardiães da fronteira: Rio Guaporé, século XVIII
'. Petrópolis: Vozes. ISBN 85-326-0017-4.

Climate

The yearly precipitation of the region is 1,600 mm, with a distinct

dry season The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics. The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which moves from the northern to the southern tropics and back over the course of the year. The te ...

from May to September. Monthly average temperatures vary from 24 °C und 29 °C over the year. According to the

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system Magdalenas has a

Tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of p ...

, abbreviated "Aw".

References

* www.ine.gov.bo Populated places in Beni Department Jesuit Missions of Moxos {{Beni-geo-stub