La Guajira
La Guajira is a department of Colombia. It occupies most of the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of the country, on the Caribbean Sea and bordering Venezuela, at the northernmost tip of South America.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Riohacha and Maicao.
Riohacha
Riohacha is the capital of the department of La Guajira. The city with 188,000 inhabitants is on the Caribbean coast and the land behind the town is rather desert-like.
Maicao
Maicao is a city in the La Guajira department in northeastern Colombia, near the border with Venezuela.Punta Gallinas
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Punta Gallinas is a headland in northern Colombia. Located in Uribia Municipality, La Guajira Department, it is the northernmost point on the mainland of South America, and one of the extreme points of South America.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Dibulla and Cabo de la Vela.
Dibulla
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Dibulla is a town and municipality located in the Department of La Guajira, Colombia by the Caribbean Sea and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains on the Guajira Peninsula.
Cabo de la Vela
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Cabo de la Vela is a headland in the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia with an adjacent small fishing village. It is a popular ecotourism destination of the Caribbean region of Colombia.
Palomino
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Palomino is a small town on the Caribbean coast of Colombia located in the Guajira region of Colombia, approximately 70 km from Santa Marta and 90 km from Riohacha.
La Guajira
- Type: department of Colombia with 881,000 residents
- Description: department of Colombia
- Also known as: “Comisaria de la Goajira”, “Comisaría de la Guajira”, “Comisaría Especial de la Guajira”, “Goajira”, “Intendencia Nacional de La Guajira”, “La Goajira”, and “La Guajira Department”
- Neighbors: Eastern Andino and Magdalena Department
- Location: Costa Norte, Colombia, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“La Guajira” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Guajira (departement)”
- Afrikaans: “Guajira”
- Arabic: “إدارة لا غواخيرا”
- Asturian: “departamentu de La Guajira”
- Asturian: “La Guajira”
- Basque: “La Guajira”
- Belarusian: “Гуахіра”
- Bengali: “লা গোয়াজিরা বিভাগ”
- Breton: “La Guajira”
- Bulgarian: “Гуахира”
- Bulgarian: “Ла Гуахира”
- Catalan: “Guajira”
- Catalan: “La Guajira”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de La Guajira”
- Chinese: “Guajira”
- Chinese: “瓜希拉省”
- Croatian: “Guajira”
- Croatian: “La Guajira”
- Czech: “La Guajira”
- Danish: “La Guajira Department”
- Dimli (individual language): “La Guaxira”
- Dutch: “Guajira”
- Dutch: “La Guajira”
- Esperanto: “Departemento La Guajira”
- Esperanto: “La Gŭahira”
- Esperanto: “La Gŭaĥira”
- Esperanto: “La Guajira”
- Finnish: “Guajira”
- Finnish: “La Guajira”
- French: “La Guajira”
- Galician: “La Guajira”
- Georgian: “ლა-გუახირის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “CO-LAG”
- German: “La Guajira”
- Greek: “Λα Γκουατζίρα”
- Gujarati: “લા ગુજિરા વિભાગ”
- Hebrew: “לה גואחירה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז לה גואחירה”
- Hindi: “ला ग्वाजिरा विभाग”
- Hungarian: “La Guajira megye”
- Iloko: “Departamento ti La Guajira”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Guajira”
- Italian: “dipartimento di La Guajira”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di La Guajira”
- Italian: “La Guajira”
- Japanese: “ラ・グアヒーラ県”
- Kannada: “ಲಾ ಗುಜಿರಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “라 과히라 주”
- Korean: “라 과히라”
- Korean: “라과히라”
- Korean: “라과히라주”
- Ladino: “La Guajira”
- Latvian: “Lagvahiras departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Guachira”
- Lithuanian: “Guachiros departamentas”
- Lithuanian: “Gvachiros departamentas”
- Lithuanian: “La Guachira”
- Lithuanian: “La Guachiros departamentas”
- Low German: “Departamento La Guajira”
- Malagasy: “Departamentan’i La Guajira”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran Guajira”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran La Guajira”
- Marathi: “ला गुजिरा विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Guajira”
- Northern Frisian: “La Guajira (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “La Guajira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Guajira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Guajira-departementet”
- Norwegian: “La Guajira”
- Ossetian: “Гуахирæ (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Гуахирæ”
- Papiamento: “La Guajira”
- Persian: “بخش لا گواخیرا”
- Persian: “شهرستان لا گواخیرا”
- Polish: “La Guajira”
- Portuguese: “Departmento de La Guajira”
- Portuguese: “La Guajira”
- Quechua: “La Guajira suyu”
- Russian: “Гуахира”
- Samogitian: “Guakėras departaments”
- Scots: “La Guajira Depairtment”
- Scots: “La Guajira”
- Scottish Gaelic: “La Guajira”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Guajira”
- Sinhala: “ලා ගුආ ජිරා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Sinhala: “ලා ගුආජිරා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
- Slovenian: “CO-LAG”
- Slovenian: “Departamento de La Guajira”
- Slovenian: “Departma La Guajira”
- Slovenian: “La Guajira”
- Spanish: “Guajira”
- Spanish: “La Guajira”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⵍⴰ ⴳⵡⴰⵅⵉⵔⴰ”
- Swedish: “Guajira”
- Swedish: “La Guajira”
- Tagalog: “La Guajira”
- Tamil: “லா குஅஜீரா துறை”
- Telugu: “లా గ్వాజిరా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “లా గ్వాజిరా విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดลากัวฮิรา”
- Turkish: “La Guajira”
- Ukrainian: “Гуахіра”
- Urdu: “لا گواجیرا دیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “لاگواخیرا محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính La Guajira”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Guajira”
- Wayuu: “Departamento Wajiira”
- Western Armenian: “Լա Կուախերայի վարչակազմ”
- Western Panjabi: “لاگوجیرا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “瓜希拉省”
- Yoruba: “Department of La Guajira”
- Yoruba: “La Guajira Department”
- “Guakėras departaments”
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