La Guajira (Spanish pronunciation: [la ɣwaˈxiɾa]) is a department of Colombia. It occupies most of the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of the...
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Barrancas is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of La Guajira. The municipality of Barrancas is located to the left margin of the Ranchería...
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The La Guajira Desert [la ɣwaˈxiɾa] (Wayuu: Woumainkat Wajiira, Spanish: Desierto de La Guajira) is a desert located in northern Colombia and Venezuela...
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Uribia is a town and municipality of the La Guajira department of Colombia. It is the youngest municipality of this Department since the year 2000. Northern...
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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...
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The Guajira Peninsula [ɡwaˈxiɾa] (Spanish: Península de La Guajira, also spelled Goajira, mainly in colonial period texts, Wayuu: Woumainpa’a) is a peninsula...
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La Guajira Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de La Guajira) refers to a criminal organization originating from Maicao that operates in the Guajira Peninsula on the...
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Wayuu people (redirect from Guajira people)
(also Wayu, Wayú, Guajiro, Wahiro) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language...
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Look up guajira in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Guajira may refer to: Guajira Peninsula, a peninsula in the northernmost part of South America shared...
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Calabash tree) is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of La Guajira. Is the youngest municipality of this Department along with the town of...
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the name of guajira. Guajira was utilized by Spanish Zarzuela composers, such as Ruperto Chapí, who included it in his well known play "La Revoltosa",...
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Villanueva is a town and municipality located in the northern Department of La Guajira, Colombia. Villanueva is known in Colombia for being the cradle of many...
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Nikolaus Federmann (section Expedition in La Guajira)
Coro after reaching Cabo de la Vela in February 1536 without having founded a settlement on the Caribbean coast of La Guajira. From Coro, he traveled along...
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Riohacha (redirect from Riohacha, La Guajira)
Ranchería River and the Caribbean Sea. It is the capital city of the La Guajira Department. It has a sandy beach waterfront. Founded by conquistador Nikolaus...
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located in the Department of La Guajira, Colombia by the Caribbean Sea and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains on the Guajira Peninsula. It was proclaimed...
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peoples and cultures since at least 12,000 BCE. The Spanish first landed in La Guajira in 1499, and by the mid-16th century, they had colonized much of present-day...
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from the University of Florida, recovered 186 fossils of Titanoboa from La Guajira in northeastern Colombia. It was named and described in 2009 as Titanoboa...
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Approximately two thirds of the registered Indigenous peoples live in La Guajira, Cauca, Nariño, Córdoba and Sucre Departments. Amazon Basin, a sparsely...
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Manaure is a town and municipality located in the Colombian Department of La Guajira. Manaure's main economic activity is the exploitation of the vast amounts...
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Fonseca is a municipality located in the Colombian Department of La Guajira. The town celebrates the Festival del Retorno in honor of St Augustine with...
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governors of the Department of La Guajira, Colombia: List of Colombian Department Governors (in Spanish) History of La Guajira (in Spanish) Government of...
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department governments: Atlántico, Bolívar, Cesar, Sucre, Córdoba, Magdalena, La Guajira and San Andrés and Providencia. These 8 departments also cover approximately...
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San Francisco is a settlement in Dibulla Municipality, La Guajira Department in Colombia. San Francisco has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) with moderate...
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Luis Díaz (footballer, born 1997) (category People from La Guajira Department)
Luis Fernando Díaz Marulanda was born on 13 January 1997 in Barrancas, La Guajira, and began playing football at the age of six. Nicknamed "Luchito", he...
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Wayuu language (redirect from Guajira language)
Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia on the Guajira Peninsula and surrounding Lake Maracaibo. There were an estimated 300,000...
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35 Uribia La Guajira 192,721 36 Barrancabermeja Santander 191,495 37 Florencia Caquetá 181,493 38 Turbo Antioquia 172,314 39 Maicao La Guajira 164,424 40...
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of La Guajira. The municipality has a total area of 187 km² and located some 450 meters over sea level and with an average temperature of 27 °C. La Jagua...
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Romero Ospino or popularly known as "El Pollo Isra" (Born in Villanueva, La Guajira in 1955) is a Colombian vallenato musician, composer and accordionist...
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Retrieved 3 July 2024. "De San Juan es señorita guajira al reinado Nacional de Belleza". La Guajira Hoy. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2023. @reinadocolombiacnb...
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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (category Geography of La Guajira Department)
of 36 rivers. The range is in the Departments of Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira. The highest point of the Sierra Nevada group (and Colombia in general)...
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