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'''Paurito''' is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department in the South American Andean Plurinational State of Bolivia.
== Location == Paurito is the central town of ''Cantón Paurito'' and is located in Santa Cruz Municipality in Andrés Ibáñez Province. It is situated at an elevation of 356 m fourteen kilometers west of Río Grande, one of the largest rivers in the Bolivian lowlands.
== Roads == Paurito is located 27 kilometers south-east of the departmental capital Santa Cruz. From Santa Cruz, the tarmac road ''Ruta 4/Ruta 9'' goes 18 km east to Cotoca and then to Puerto Pailas where it crosses the Río Grande 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 Cotoca, a dirt road leaves the Rutas 4/9 in a southern direction and reaches Paurito after sixteen kilometers.
== Population == The population of Paurito has increased rapidly over the past two decades as the following table shows:{{Needs update|date=February 2025}} {| class="wikitable" !colspan=2 bgcolor="#FFDEAD" | Population<br>development |- |align=center bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Year | Inhabitants |- |align=center bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|1992<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ine.gov.bo/indice/poblacion92Proy.aspx?gestion=1992 |title=1992 census (INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia) |access-date=2010-01-05 |archive-date=2014-08-05 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140805090806/http://www.ine.gov.bo/indice/poblacion92Proy.aspx?gestion=1992 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |align=center | 1 027 |- |align=center bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|2001<ref>[http://www.ine.gov.bo/comunitaria/comunitariaVer.aspx?Depto=07&Prov=01&Seccion=01 2001 census (INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia)]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |align=center | 1 548 |- |align=center bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|2009<ref>[http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-38&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=x 2009 est. (World Gazetteer)]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |align=center | 2 113 |} Due to the population movements over the past decades, the region has a certain amount of Quechua population, in the Santa Cruz Municipality 12.0 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090419143716/http://www.aguabolivia.org/situacionaguaX/Riego/mapas/santacruz/andresi.htm Map of Andrés Ibáñez Province]
{{Santa Cruz Department}}
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Category:Populated places in Santa Cruz Department