Meta Department

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Meta
Department of Colombia
Bandera de Meta Escudo de Meta
(Detail) (Detail)
Motto:
Location of Meta
Capital Villavicencio
Governor
Area 85,635 km²
Population
 - Total (2003)
 - Density		  
771,089
9 people/km²
Adjective

Meta is a department of Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, at the East of the Andes mountain, in the plain called the Llanos. Its capital is Villavicencio.

The name belongs also to a river that crosses this department.

The department has a monument placed in the very geographic centre.

[edit] Municipalities

  1. Acacias
  2. Barranca de Upía
  3. Cabuyaro
  4. Castilla la Nueva
  5. Cubarral
  6. Cumaral
  7. El Calvario
  8. El Castillo
  9. El Dorado
  10. Fuente de Oro
  11. Granada
  12. Guamal
  13. La Macarena
  14. La Uribe
  15. Lejanías
  16. Mapiripán
  17. Mesetas
  18. Puerto Concordia
  19. Puerto Gaitán
  20. Puerto Lleras
  21. Puerto López
  22. Puerto Rico
  23. Restrepo
  24. San Carlos Guaroa
  25. San Juan de Arama
  26. San Juanito
  27. San Martín
  28. Villavicencio
  29. Vista Hermosa

[edit] External links

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Departments of Colombia
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Amazonas • Antioquia • Arauca • Atlántico • Bolívar • Boyacá • Caldas • Caquetá • Casanare • Cauca • Cesar • Chocó • Córdoba • Cundinamarca • Guainía • Guajira • Guaviare • Huila • Magdalena • Meta • Nariño • Norte de Santander • Putumayo • Quindío • Risaralda • San Andrés and Providencia • Santander • Sucre • Tolima • Valle del Cauca • Vaupés • Vichada

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