Colombian Touristic Sites: The Amazon region of Colombia

The Amazon region of Colombia

The Amazon region is formed by the departments of Amazonas, Caquetá, Putumayo, Vaupes, Guaviare and Guainia.

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The Amazon is shared by Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil. The Colombian side has about fifty thousand inhabitants. Naturaly a resources seem infinite, but they aren´t, and its people belong to indigenous ethnic groups, about fifteen, who live in small communities such as Nazareth and the island of monkeys. Its capital is Leticia, where most of the inhabitants of the department, between mestizos and Indians. Recently tourism is higher in this region, mainly attracted foreign and domestic natural beauty and the river whichgives life to the whole region and connects the country with its neighbors.

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The departments of Putumayo, Guaviare, Vaupes, Guinia and Caquetá, along with the department of Amazonas, make the Colombian Amazon. Most of the population is indigenous, more than fifty different indigenous ethnics groups, some with their own languages, which form an extraordinary cultural richness. Education in the region is in the hands of infigenous teachers, as most Indian schools are bilingual. Are rural comunities whose source of support is agriculture. in recent years have been particularity affected by groups that monopolize illicit crops, which has also involved anexpense of natural resources, whether water pollution by planting mines or proliferation of coca crops. Most of the land is forested, which is an optimal habitat for the flourishing of many forms of life. Although there are no roads that reach even to the capitals, with the exception of Caquetá and Putumayo, you can tour lands by the rivers that feed them, both by amount of fish that inhabit them for the mobility they allow.