Guainía Department

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Department of Guainía
Departamento de Guainía
Department

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Guainía shown in red
Coordinates: 3°51′55″N 67°55′26″W / 3.86528°N 67.92389°W / 3.86528; -67.92389Coordinates: 3°51′55″N 67°55′26″W / 3.86528°N 67.92389°W / 3.86528; -67.92389
Country  Colombia
Region Amazon Region
Capital Inirida
Government
 • Governor Wilson Ladino Vigoya
Area
 • Total 72,238 km2 (27,891 sq mi)
Area rank 5th
Population (2013)[1]
 • Total 40,203
 • Rank 33rd
 • Density 0.56/km2 (1.4/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-05
ISO 3166 code CO-GUA

Guainía (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaiˈni.a]; Yuri language: Land of many waters) is a department of Colombia. It is in the east of the country, bordering Venezuela and Brazil. Its capital is Inirida. In 1963 Guainía was split off from Vaupés. The northern part and the Inírida River are included in the Orinoco river basin; the rest is part of Amazonia. The Guaviare River is the main area of colonization, many colonos come from the Colombian Andean zone, most of them from Boyacá. They are followed by the llaneros, people from the Eastern plains. The main population is composed by Native Indians, the big ethnic groups are the Puinave (from the makú-puinave family) and the curripaco (from the Arawak family). There are a total of 24 ethnic groups in the department, many of them speak four Indian languages besides Spanish and Portuguese.

Municipalities

There's only one municipality in Guainía: Inírida the capital. The rest of the territory is subdivided in corregimientos departamentales, a pending figure due to public disorder.[2] This case happens only in Amazonas, Vaupés and Vichada. Barrancominas is the second biggest population and its main corregimiento; it is located in the Guaviare River.

The Guainía corregimientos are:

  1. Cacahual
  2. Guaviare
  3. La Guadalupe
  4. Morichal Nuevo
  5. Pana Pana
  6. Puerto Colombia
  7. San Felipe

References

  1. ↑ "DANE". Retrieved February 13, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Sentencia C-141/01" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2008-07-27. 

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