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Valle del Cauca, or Cauca Valley (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaʎe ðel ˈkawka]), is a department in western Colombia abutting the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Santiago de Cali . Other cities such as Buenaventura , Buga , Cartago , Palmira and Tuluá have great economical, political, social and cultural influence on the department's life.
Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted The Amazon River drainage basin; with the Casiquiare River, a distributary of the Orinoco River flowing southward into the Negro River, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.
This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in South America. ... Cauca climbing mouse, ... Inioidea (river dolphins) Family: Iniidae. Genus: ...
The archaeological park is located in the upper basin of the Magdalena River and its primary tributaries, in the municipality of the town of San Agustin in Huila in the eastern foothills of the Colombian Massif, from which emerge the three Andean mountain ranges traversing the country from south to north in the Andean Region.
Official languages in South America. The languages of South America can be divided into three broad groups: the languages of the (in most cases, former) colonial powers; many indigenous languages, some of which are co-official alongside the colonial languages; and various pockets of other languages spoken by immigrant populations.
South America is also home to 124 million Castizo, Mestizo or Caboclo people (citizens whose DNA is mostly European spanning from 65 to 90% European genes with considerable Indigenous admixture) and 27 million people with pure Indigenous extraction, mostly found in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, South of Colombia and parts of Chile and Northwest ...
Indigenous peoples of Colombia are the ethnic groups who have inhabited Colombia since before the Spanish colonization of Colombia, in the early 16th century.. Estimates on the percentage of Colombians who are indigenous vary, from 3% or 1.5 million to 10% or 5 million.
[4] [9] [10] The critically endangered Dahl's toad-headed turtle and Magdalena River turtle are largely restricted to the Magdalena River basin, [11] as are many threatened fish. [12] In 2020, a study showed that there was an increase in the nutrient levels and cyanobacteria in Colombian lakes inhabited by hippos.