Official Name: | Entre Ríos |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Bolivia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Bolivia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Tarija Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Burdett O'Connor Province |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2007 |
Population Total: | 2,800 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | BOT |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Coordinates: | -21.5264°N -64.1733°W |
Entre Ríos (Spanish: "Between the rivers") is a town in the Bolivian Tarija Department.
Entre Ríos is the administrative center of Burdett O'Connor Province. 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, 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.
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 from January to March.
Entre Ríos' population at the 2001 census 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 Guaraní people who have inhabited the Paraná Basin for millennia.