San José del Guaviare

San José del Guaviare on the map of Guaviare

San José del Guaviare is a town and municipality in the sprawling eastern Andes foothills of Colombia, about 400 km southeast of the capital Bogota. The municipality (Spanish: Municipio) has 45 573 inhabitants ( 2005). After the establishment in 1910, she received a city charter in 1976.

Geography

San José is the capital of the sparsely populated departments of Guaviare, on its northern edge it lies on the River Guayabero, the headwaters of the Río Guaviare. Your geographical coordinates are 2 ° 35 'North and 72 ° 38' West.

The municipality has 12 large settlements and an area of ​​approximately 16,500 km ², which corresponds approximately to that of the whole of Thuringia. It extends in an east-west direction along 300 km of the river, the hinterland south of the Guaviare but only about 30-60 km. San Jose has the only airport in the department, but no rail link. The Bogota and the northern neighboring province of Meta coming, fortified country road crosses the Guayabero near the settlement of Puerto Arturo and goes 80 km south to the neighboring village of Calamar.

In a narrow valley about 20 km upstream from San José the Rio Guaviare has violent rapids.

History

The banks in the region are inhabited by Indians for centuries, but also the hinterland. Beginning of the 20th century saw the first settler colonies and farms. The City of San José itself was built in 1910, dedicated to St. Joseph and named after the river on which it lies.

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