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Puerto Pailas
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| Country | Bolivia |
| Department | Santa Cruz Department |
| Province | Andrés Ibáñez Province |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 3,141 |
Puerto Pailas is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean Republic of Bolivia.
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Puerto Pailas is the central town of Puerto Pailas Cantón and is located in Cotoca Municipality in Andrés Ibáñez Province. It is situated at an elevation of 297 m on the left banks of Río Grande, one of the longest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands, which is 1,200 m wide at this place and is spanned by a road bridge here.
Puerto Pailas is located 47 kilometers north-east of the departamental capital Santa Cruz. From Santa Cruz the tarmac road Ruta 4/Ruta 9 goes east through Cotoca to Puerto Pailas where it crosses the Río Grande River and reaches Pailón on the river's eastern banks. From Pailón, Ruta 4 goes further east for another 587 km before it reaches Puerto Suárez on the Brazilian border, while Ruta 9 goes north to Guayaramerin after 1175 km.
At Puerto Pailas, a dirt road leaves the Rutas 4 and 9 in north-westerly direction and goes 4 km to the neighbouring town Montero Hoyos.
The population of the place has increased rapidly over the past two decades.
The town had 1,621 inhabitants at the 1992 census[1], then 2,301 at the 2001 census[2], and has now 3,141 inhabitants (2009 est.)[3].
Due to the population movements over the past decades, the region has a certain amount of Quechua population, in Puerto Pailas Municipality 17.8 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
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