Guaviare is a department

Departments of Colombia

Colombia is an unitary republic formed by thirty-two departments and a Capital District . Each department has a Governor and a Department Assembly , elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods...

 of Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

. It is in the southern central region of the country. Its capital is San José del Guaviare

San José del Guaviare

San José del Guaviare is a town and municipality in Colombia, capital of the department of Guaviare by the Guaviare River.-External links: *...

. Guaviare was created on July 4, 1991 by the new Political Constitution of Colombia. Up until that point, it was a national territory that operated as a Commissariat, segregated from territory of the then Commissariat of Vaupés on December 23, 1977.

Municipalities

1. Calamar
   Calamar, Guaviare
   Calamar is a town and municipality in the Guaviare Department, Colombia....
   
   
2. El Retorno
   El Retorno
   El Retorno is a town and municipality in the Guaviare Department, Colombia....
   
   
3. Miraflores
   Miraflores, Guaviare
   Miraflores is a town and municipality in the Guaviare Department, Colombia. The municipality was created on February 8, 1990. On August 1998 a Colombian National Police Base was overran by the FARC guerrillas and later rebuilt and reoccupied on February 2004...
   
   
4. San José del Guaviare
   San José del Guaviare
   San José del Guaviare is a town and municipality in Colombia, capital of the department of Guaviare by the Guaviare River.-External links: *...
   
   

Demographics

The Nukak

Nukak

The Nukak people live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, in the depths of the tropical humid forest, on the fringe of the Amazon basin, in Guaviare Department, Republic of Colombia. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and in addition they practice a shifting...

, a nomadic tribe that was uncontacted until 1988, live in Guaviare.

External links

Territorial-Environmental Information System of Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC website