Guaviare Department

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Guaviare Department is a sparsely populated administrative region in southeastern Colombia known for its Amazonian rainforest, rivers, and role as a frontier between the Andes and the Amazon basin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf department of Colombia
borderBetween Amazon rainforest
surface form: Amazon rainforest region

Andes
surface form: Andes region
borders Caquetá Department
Guainía Department
Guaviare River
Meta Department
Vaupés Department
Vichada Department
capital San José del Guaviare
characterizedBy Amazonian rainforest
sparsely populated territory
tropical rivers
contains Calamar, Guaviare
El Retorno, Guaviare
Miraflores, Guaviare
San José del Guaviare
country Colombia
governedBy Governor of Guaviare
hasClimate tropical rainforest climate
hasEcosystem Amazon rainforest
savanna-forest transition zone
hasISO3166-2Code CO-GUV
hasMajorRiver Ariari River NERFINISHED
Guaviare River
Inírida River
Vaupés River
hasMunicipality Calamar, Guaviare
El Retorno, Guaviare
Miraflores, Guaviare
San José del Guaviare
hasOfficialLanguage Spanish
hasRegionalImportance gateway to Colombian Amazon
hasSettlementType department
knownFor archaeological rock art sites
biodiversity
role as frontier between Andes and Amazon basin
languageOfOfficialName Spanish
locatedIn Amazon Basin
surface form: Amazon basin

southeastern Colombia
locatedInContinent South America
namedAfter Guaviare River
officialName Guaviare Department self-linksurface differs
surface form: Departamento del Guaviare
partOf Amazonas–Orinoquía natural region of Colombia
Colombia
surface form: Republic of Colombia
subdivisionType department
timeZone America/Bogota
surface form: Colombia Standard Time
utcOffset UTC−05:00

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Meta Department borderedBy Guaviare Department
Colombian Amazon region contains Guaviare Department
Guaviare River formsBorderBetween Guaviare Department
Guaviare River flowsThrough Guaviare Department
Vichada Department hasBorderWith Guaviare Department
Departamento de Meta hasBorderWith Guaviare Department
this entity surface form: Departamento de Guaviare
Guaviare Department officialName Guaviare Department self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Departamento del Guaviare
Caquetá Department borderingDepartment Guaviare Department
Putumayo Department bordersDepartment Guaviare Department
San José del Guaviare capitalOf Guaviare Department
San José del Guaviare transportHubFor Guaviare Department
Chiribiquete National Natural Park locatedIn Guaviare Department
Vaupés Department bordersWith Guaviare Department
eastern Colombia containsDepartment Guaviare Department
subject surface form: Eastern Colombia
Eastern Plains of Colombia containsDepartment Guaviare Department