Department of Guainía

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Guainía
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Capital Inírida
governor Javier Eliécer Zapata Parrado (2016-2019)
surface 72,238 km²
Population  (Total)
 - 2005 Census
 -  Population Density
 
35,230 
0.5 inhabitants / km²
urbanization 15.5%
Literacy rate 65%
Number of parishes 9
Popular name guainiano / a, guainarense
Important cities Inírida
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Location of Guainía in Colombia

The Departamento de Guainía is a province in eastern Colombia . It borders Venezuela to the east and Brazil to the south, the provinces of Vaupés and Guaviare to the west and Vichada to the north .

The economy is poor. In addition to agriculture, there is also fishing , hunting and livestock farming as well as gold and diamond deposits in the mountainous areas on the borders with Venezuela and Brazil.

The majority of the population are indigenous people from various tribes of the area.

Administrative division

The Departamento de Guainía consists of a municipality ( Municipio ) and eight offices ("Corregimientos Departamentales" marked with a CD at the end) due to the low population density. The offices are characterized by the lack of urban structures. The following shows the municipality and the eight offices with their total number of inhabitants from the census of the Colombian statistical office DANE from 2005, extrapolated for 2018.

local community Population 2018
Inírida 20,312
Barranco Minas CD 4,984
Mapiripana CD 2,759
San Felipe CD 2,306
Puerto Colombia CD 5,031
La Guadalupe CD 410
Cacahual CD 2,812
Pana Pana CD 3,467
Morichal CD 1,365

Individual evidence

  1. Extrapolation of the population of Colombia on the official DANE website