Guainía (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwajˈni.a]; Yuri language: "Land of many waters") is a department of Eastern Colombia. It is in the east of the country, bordering Venezuela and Brazil. Its capital is Inírida. In 1963 Guainía was split off from Vaupés department. The northern part and the Inírida River are included in the Orinoco basin; the rest is part of the Amazon basin. 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 (Llanos). The population is mainly composed of Amerindians, and the largest ethnic groups are the Puinaves (from the makú-puinave family) and the curripacos (from the Arawak family). There are a total of 24 ethnic groups in the department; many of them speak four Indigenous languages besides Spanish and Portuguese.
Department of Guainía
Departamento de Guainía | |
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 Flag  Coat of arms | |
.svg) Guainía shown in red | |
 Topography of the department | |
| Coordinates: 3°51′55″N 67°55′26″W / 3.86528°N 67.92389°W | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Region | Amazon Region |
| Capital | Inírida |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Javier Eliecer Zapata Parrado (2016–2019) |
| Area | |
• Total | 72,238 km2 (27,891 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 5th |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 48,114 |
| • Rank | 33rd |
| • Density | 0.67/km2 (1.7/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | COP 498 billion (US$ 0.1 billion) |
| Time zone | UTC-05 |
| ISO 3166 code | CO-GUA |
| HDI (2019) | 0.670[3] medium · 32nd of 33 |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1964 | 3,602 | — |
| 1973 | 6,637 | +84.3% |
| 1985 | 12,345 | +86.0% |
| 1993 | 28,478 | +130.7% |
| 2005 | 35,230 | +23.7% |
| 2018 | 48,114 | +36.6% |
| Source:[4] | ||
Municipalities
editThere are two municipalities in Guainía: Inírida, its capital, and Barranco Minas. The rest of the territory is subdivided in corregimientos departamentales, a pending figure due to public disorder[clarification needed].[5] This case happens only in Amazonas, Vaupés and Vichada. Barranco Minas is the second biggest population and a municipality since 2019;[6] it is located on the Guaviare River.
The Guainía corregimientos are:
References
edit- ^ "DANE". Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ^ "Producto Interno Bruto por departamento", www.dane.gov.co
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^ "Reloj de Población". DANE. Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísitica. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ "Sentencia C-141/01" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2008-07-27.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Barrancominas nace como el municipio 1.103 de Colombia". www.guainia.gov.co (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-19.
External links
edit- (in Spanish) Guainía Secretary of Education
- Territorial-Environmental Information System of Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC website Archived 2020-06-17 at the Wayback Machine