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

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Location

Montero Hoyos is the central town of ''Cantón Montero Hoyos'' and is located in Santa Cruz Municipality in

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 303 m on the left banks of the

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Roads

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 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 ...

and

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 ...

before 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. At Puerto Pailas, a dirt road leaves the Rutas 4/9 in north-westerly direction for another 4 km to Montero Hoyos.

Population

The population of the place has increased rapidly over the past two decades.
The town had 985 inhabitants at the 1992

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, then 1,512 at the 2001 census, and has now 2,064 inhabitants (2009 est.).World Gazetteer
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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

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References

External links

Map of Andrés Ibáñez Province
{{coord, 17, 38, S, 62, 49, W, type:city, display=title Populated places in Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)