Meta ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmeta] ) is a department of Colombia . It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the Meta River , is covered by a grassland plain known as the Llanos . Its capital is Villavicencio . The department has a monument placed in the very geographic centre of Colombia, at a place known as Alto de Menegua, a few kilometers from Puerto López.
7-453: Mapiripán is a town and municipality in the Meta Department , Colombia . It was the site of the 1997 Mapiripán Massacre . 2°53′N 72°08′W / 2.883°N 72.133°W / 2.883; -72.133 This Department of Meta location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Meta Department Achagua , which is similar to Piapoco,
14-408: Is a department of Southeastern Colombia in the jungle covered Amazonía Region . It is located in the southeast part of the country, bordering Brazil to the east, the department of Amazonas to the south, Caquetá to the west, and Guaviare , and Guainía to the north; covering a total area of 54,135 km . Its capital is the town of Mitú . As of 2018, the population was 40,797, making it
21-1310: Is an Indigenous language spoken by a minority in the department. [REDACTED] Amazonas [REDACTED] Antioquia [REDACTED] Arauca [REDACTED] Atlántico [REDACTED] Bolívar [REDACTED] Boyacá [REDACTED] Caldas [REDACTED] Caquetá [REDACTED] Casanare [REDACTED] Cauca [REDACTED] Cesar [REDACTED] Chocó [REDACTED] Córdoba [REDACTED] Cundinamarca [REDACTED] Guainía [REDACTED] Guaviare [REDACTED] Huila [REDACTED] La Guajira [REDACTED] Magdalena [REDACTED] Meta [REDACTED] Nariño [REDACTED] N. Santander [REDACTED] Putumayo [REDACTED] Quindío [REDACTED] Risaralda [REDACTED] San Andrés [REDACTED] Santander [REDACTED] Sucre [REDACTED] Tolima [REDACTED] Valle del Cauca [REDACTED] Vaupés [REDACTED] Vichada Capital district: [REDACTED] Bogotá Vaup%C3%A9s Department Vaupés ( Spanish pronunciation: [bawˈpes] )
28-501: The Sovereign State of Cauca . In 1886 became part of the then recently created Cauca Department . With the expansion of the rubber industry and the industrial revolution, exploration for rubber reached the area bringing colonizers that altered and in some cases extinguished the majority of the indigenous population . The territory was first made into a territorial division in 1910 and functioned as Commissaries (Comisarias) with
35-770: The least populous department in Colombia. During the colonization by the Spanish and first days of the first republic, the territory of Vaupes was part of the Province of Popayán , during the Greater Colombia . After the independence from Spain between 1821 and 1830 became part of the first version of the Boyacá Department . Between 1831 and 1857 the territory became part of the National Territory of Caquetá to later be part of
42-495: The population consists of indigenous inhabitants. It is the least populated department in the country. Because of its location in the Amazon jungle , it has no roads connecting it with the rest of the country or internally from settlement to settlement, and commerce and contact with the outside world is achieved through travel along the main rivers and by means of air travel. Several of the small settlements have airstrips with service to
49-672: The town of Calamar as capital (located in present-day Guaviare ) but later moved to the town of Mitú to make an "act of presence" near the border with Brazil . In 1963 Guainía segregated from the Vaupes and became a commissary. In 1977, Guaviare followed the same path. The department was created after the Colombian Constitution of 1991 which established it as a Department of Colombia on July 4, 1991. The department's main economic activities feature logging and fishing, with much exportation to neighboring Brazil. The vast majority of
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