Guaviare Department

Department of Guaviare

Departamento del Guaviare
Department of Guaviare Departamento del Guaviare
Department
	Flag Coat of arms
	Guaviare shown in red
	Topography of the department
	Coordinates: 2°34′N 72°38′W / 2.567°N 72.633°W
Country	Colombia
Region	Amazon Region
Established	July 4, 1991
Capital	San José del Guaviare
Government
• Governor	Nebio De Jesus Echeverry Cadavid (2016-2019)
Area
• Total	53,460 km2 (20,640 sq mi)
• Rank	8th
Population (2018)
• Total	82,767
• Rank	28th
• Density	1.5/km2 (4.0/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-05
ISO 3166 code	CO-GUV
HDI (2017)	0.737; high · 13th

Guaviare (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaˈβjaɾe]) is a department of Colombia. It is in the southern central region of the country. Its capital is San José del Guaviare. 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

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1985	47,073	—
1993	97,602	+107.3%
2005	95,551	−2.1%
2018	82,767	−13.4%
Source:^[5]

Ethnic makeup

Mestizos & Whites (90,09%)
Blacks or Afro-Colombians (5,86%)
Amerindians or Indigenous (4,05%)

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

Notes

^ "Datos y Cifras del Guaviare" (PDF). Gobernacion del Guaviare. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
^ Kline, Harvey F. (2012). "Guariare, Department of". Historical Dictionary of Colombia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-8108-7813-6.
^ "DANE". Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
^ "Reloj de Población". DANE. Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísitica. Retrieved 6 July 2017.