Department of the Guaviare

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Guaviare
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Capital San José del Guaviare
governor Nebio de Jesús Echeverry Cadavid (2016-2019)
surface 53,460 km²
Population  (Total)
 - 2005 Census
 -  Population Density 		 
95,551 
2 inhabitants / km²
urbanization 15.5%
Literacy rate 82%
Number of parishes 4th
Popular name
Important cities El Retorno, Miraflores
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Location of Guaviare in Colombia

The Departamento del Guaviare is a sparsely populated department in southeast Colombia , about 300 to 500 km southeast of the capital Bogotá . The region was only given the political status of Departamento in 1991, as did other remote areas and intendencias in the Amazon.

Guaviare is bordered by Guainía to the east, Vaupés to the southeast, Caquetá to the southwest , Meta to the west and north and Vichada to the northeast .

geography

In terms of landscape, Guaviare belongs to the Andes foothills of the Eastern Cordillera at the transition to the Amazon basin . The main continental watershed between the Orinoco and the Amazon runs over the gently undulating plateau . The altitude is about 250 to 500 meters above sea level.

Orographically, the department includes the upper reaches of the Guayabero or Guaviare and Inírida rivers , which drain east to the Orinoco, and Vaupés and Ajaju ( Río Apaporis ), which flow southeast to the Rio Negro or the Río Japurá . The plateau of the Llanos between the rivers extends far east to the Mesa di Yambi on the edge of Amazonia.

The economy is dominated by agriculture . The crops grown are cocoa and bananas, as well as beans and corn . Fishing , mining and logging also play an important role .

The Parque Nacional Natural Chiribiquete is partly located in the Departamento del Guaviare and is the world's largest tropical national park.

Administrative division

The Departamento del Guaviare is very sparsely populated and therefore consists of only four municipalities ( Municipio ). The following table shows the total number of inhabitants, as shown in the census of the Colombian statistical office DANE from 2005, extrapolated for 2018.

local community Population 2018
Calamar 8,456
El Retorno 24,155
Miraflores 15,451
San José del Guaviare 67,767

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Individual evidence

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