Entre Ríos (
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
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: "''Between the rivers''") is a town in the
Bolivia
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Tarija Department
Tarija () is a department in Bolivia. It is located in south-eastern Bolivia bordering with Argentina to the south and Paraguay to the east. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 534,348 inhabitants. It has an area of . The city ...
.
Location
Entre Ríos is the administrative center of
. It is located at an altitude of at the confluence of Río Tambo and one of its tributaries, and a three-hour ride east of
Tarija
Tarija or San Bernardo de la Frontera de Tarixa is a city in southern Bolivia. Founded in 1574, Tarija is the largest city and capital and municipality within the Tarija Department, with an airport ( Capitán Oriel Lea Plaza Airport, (TJA)) of ...
, the departmental capital. The town is bordered by north-southerly mountain ranges and situated in an elongated triangular hollow of length. It was previously called San Luis.
Climate
The average yearly temperature of Entre Ríos is 20.9 °C, the yearly precipitation of 1,300 mm appears mainly in the summer's
wet season
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs. Generally, the season lasts at least one month. The term ''green season'' is also sometimes used a ...
from January to March.
Population
Entre Ríos' population at the 2001
census
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was 2,413 and rose to circa 2,800 people in 2007. The Entre Ríos region is still one of the main settlement areas of the
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Ethnography
* Guaraní people, an indigenous people from South America's interior (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia)
* Guarani language, or Paraguayan Guarani, an official language of Paraguay
* G ...
people who have inhabited the
Paraná Basin
The Paraná Basin (, ) is a large cratonic sedimentary basin situated in the central-eastern part of South America. About 75% of its areal distribution occurs in Brazil, from Mato Grosso to Rio Grande do Sul states. The remainder area is distribu ...
for millennia.
References
External links
Map of province
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Populated places in Tarija Department