Puerto Fernández Alonso is a municipality in the province Obispo Santistevan in the department Santa Cruz in

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

. It is also known as Fernández Alonso.

History

The municipality was created by Law 2320 on 28 January 2002. It comprised two

cantons A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, th ...

: * Fernández Alonso * Chané Independencia Before 2002, these localities were part of the municipality of Mineros.

References

Municipalities of Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia) {{Bolivia-geo-stub