Guaviare Department

The Departamento de Guaviare is a sparsely populated province in the southeast of Colombia, about 300 to 500 km southeast of the capital Bogota. The political status of the department received the region in 1991, as well as other remote areas and Intendencias in Amazonia.

The neighboring provinces are:

• In the east Guainía in the south Vaupés and Caquetá,
• The west and north Meta, Vichada in the northeast.

Geography

Scenic Guaviare belongs to the Andean foothills of the Eastern Cordillera at the transition to the Amazon basin. About the gently rolling tableland runs the continental watershed between the Orinoco and Amazon. The altitude is about 250 to 500 meters above sea level.

Orographic the department comprises the upper reaches of the rivers Guayabero or Guaviare and Inirida which drain eastward to the Orinoco, and of Vaupés and Ajaju (Río Apaporis ) flowing southeast to the Rio Negro and the Rio Japurá. The table-land of the Llanos between the rivers extending far to the east to the Mesa di Yambi on the edge of Amazonia.

The economy is agrarian. The crops grown are cocoa and bananas and beans and corn. An important role is also fishing, mining and logging.

Worth seeing is the Parque Nacional Natural Chiribiquete.

Administrative subdivision

The Departamento de Guaviare is very sparsely populated, and therefore consists of four municipalities ( Municipio). The following table shows the total population as the census of the Colombian Bureau of Statistics DANE in 2005.