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PANDO DEPARTMENT
Pando Department (PDF) - GENERAL DATA – ECONOMY - CITY OF COBIJA - CITIES AND VILLAGES. Although Pando is rich in natural resources, the poverty level of its inhabitants is high, due largely to a lack of roads effectively linking the province to the rest of the country and the presence of tropical diseases typical of life in the Amazonian rain forest. The main economic activities are agriculture, timber and cattle. At an altitude of 280 meters above sea level in the northwestern jungle region, Pando is located in the rainiest part of Bolivia. Pando also has a hot climate, with temperatures commonly above 26 degrees Celsius. Pando is the least populous department in Bolivia, the most tropical (lying closest to the Equator in the Amazonian Basin), and the most isolated, due to an absence of effective roads linking it to the rest of the country. It was organized at the beginning of the 20th century from what was left of the Acre Territory, lost to Brazil as a result of the so-called Acre War (1903). Its capital city of Cobija (the smallest of all the Bolivian departmental capitals) was named after the much-lamented Bolivian port of the same name on the Pacific Ocean, part of an area lost to Chile following the War of the Pacific...
Statistical data of Pando Department. Projected total population by sex and year, Projected total population by province and section of province, Demographic indicators, Number of common crime reports, Gross domestic product at constant prices by economic activity, Gross domestic product at current prices by economic activity, Exports by main economic activity level, Reported natural adverse events. |
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