The Guajira Peninsula [ɡwaˈxiɾa] (Spanish: Península de La Guajira, also spelled Goajira, mainly in colonial period texts, Wayuu: Woumainpa’a) is a peninsula...

La Guajira (Spanish pronunciation: [la ɣwaˈxiɾa]) is a department of Colombia. It occupies most of the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of the...

Look up guajira in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Guajira may refer to: Guajira Peninsula, a peninsula in the northernmost part of South America shared...

Wayu, Wayú, Guajiro, Wahiro) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language...

approximately 1,100 km (680 mi) north of Bogotá, covering most of the La Guajira Peninsula at the northernmost tip of South America. It is the continent's largest...

Peninsula Brunswick Peninsula Hardy Peninsula Taitao Peninsula Guajira Peninsula Illescas Peninsula Paracas Peninsula Punta del Este Araya Peninsula Guajira...

people in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia on the Guajira Peninsula and surrounding Lake Maracaibo. There were an estimated 300,000 speakers...

contains 6 subregions which differ in certain natural aspects. The Guajira Peninsula is the most northerly point of South America and mostly desertic due...

states of Zulia and Falcón and by La Guajira Department, Colombia. The western side is formed by the Guajira Peninsula. A 54 km (34 mi) strait connects it...

plant, but has some local culinary importance. The Wayuu from the La Guajira Peninsula of Colombia and Venezuela also use the inner cane-like wood of the...

exploited by the Cerrejón coal mine. Barrancas is located in the Guajira Peninsula in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, limiting to the east with the...

Look up La Guajira in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. La Guajira may refer to: La Guajira Peninsula, a peninsula in the northernmost part of South America...

the most consistently hot areas of Central Australia, the Sahel and Guajira Peninsula can be, due to extreme potential evapotranspiration, classed as arid...

2013 and began gathering other defectors, stationing them in the La Guajira Peninsula. In 2011, he was charged by the US with providing the Colombian FARC...

attitudes. Alonso de Ojeda (who had sailed with Columbus) reached the Guajira Peninsula in 1499. Spanish explorers, led by Rodrigo de Bastidas, made the first...

Manizales and Pereira. The East Andes extend northeast towards the Guajira Peninsula, and includes the cities of Bogotá, Bucaramanga and Cúcuta. The climate...

the present-day Falcón-Zulia state in Venezuela and possibly the La Guajira Peninsula (Venezuela/Colombia). The specific language group to which they belonged...

the prison, the two went their separate ways. Papillon entered the Guajira peninsula, a region dominated by Amerindians. He was assimilated into a coastal...

marshes of the area are called ciénagas by the people of Colombia. The Guajira Peninsula in the east is semiarid and is occupied primarily by indigenous peoples...

Gulf of Urabá in the west to the Guajira Peninsula in the east and including some or all of the departments of Guajira, Bolívar, Atlántico, Cesar, Magdalena...

The hottest part of Venezuela is the northwest (Paraguana Peninsula and Guajira Peninsula), where temperatures of more than 38 °C (100 °F) are frequently...

exposed low-level center, and soon opened into a trough near the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia. The remnant wave later crossed into Central America,...

Cabo de la Vela (Spanish for "cape of sail") is a headland in the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia with an adjacent small fishing village. It is a popular...

26 °C (79 °F). The ecoregion occupies the Guajira Peninsula, the valley of the Rancheria river and Guajira Department, covering parts of the northeastern...

Guajira peninsula. The name of Maicao comes from the Wayunaiki: mai-ka-u which means "Land of the Maize. Maicao is located in the Guajira Peninsula,...

Tatacoa Desert is the second largest arid zone in Colombia after the Guajira Peninsula. It occupies more than 330 square kilometers. This region is located...

department of La Guajira, on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. The cape is at the northern tip of the Guajira Peninsula (Península de la Guajira) in the municipality...

Charrière subsequently escaped during a rainy night and fled to the La Guajira Peninsula, where he was adopted by an indigenous tribe. He spent several months...

Gulf of Venezuela, 34.8 kilometres (21.6 miles) off the coast of Guajira Peninsula at the border between Colombia and the Venezuelan state of Zulia....

the Magdalena River with 257,440 km2 (99,397 sq mi), as well as the Guajira Peninsula and the Gulf of Venezuela. Central American drainages include those...