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	Wildlife conservation and resource management program in Cabo de la Vela of Guajira, Colombia
		The Cabo de la Vela is located in the northwest of Colombia (approximately 12°20’N and 72°10’W) by the Caribbean Sea and has been regarded as part of a marine ecosystem of great productivity due to the concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus present in deep water.
		Es posible que este desbordado crecimiento, acompañado de una intensa actividad de extracción, esté causando un fuerte impacto sobre algunas poblaciones ícticas y otra fauna marina de la zona, y más aún, afectando enormemente la supervivencia de una de las etnias indígenas con mayor trascendencia a nivel mundial.
		En términos generales, esta comunidad posee la estructura socioeconómica general de la sociedad guajira, es una comunidad clasista dividida en ricos y pobres, con escalas intermedias, cuya organización legal está sustentada en el matrimonio guajiro que rige la vida económica y social de la comunidad.
	www.artificialreefs.org /ScientificReports/TerrazulProposal.htm (3821 words)

	Article - Venzuela vs Colombia
		The region is split by the border between Colombia, Washington's closest South American ally, and Venezuela, ruled by a left-populist government sharply at odds with the White House.
		Colombia is the third largest recipient of U.S. military aid, after Israel and Egypt, and U.S. training of Colombian military personnel is rapidly escalating.
		La Guajira is another of Colombia's most violent regions, with a string of assassinations of indigenous leaders, presumably by paramilitary forces, already reported this year.
	www.witnessforpeace.org /midatlantic/Articles/Venzuela_vs_Colombia.html (842 words)

	Generating Power and Poverty
		Many of the communities in Colombia's remote northeastern department of La Guajira exist on the periphery of the country's violence.
		In May 2002, Colombia's Supreme Court ruled that the municipality of Hatonuevo, in which Tabaco was located, must allocate resources to build new homes for the former residents of Tabaco.
		One such organization is the London-based Colombia Solidarity Campaign, which attended BHP Billiton's annual shareholders meeting on November 4 and called on the company to provide fair compensation to the displaced villagers of Tabaco.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia139.htm (1603 words)

	COLEGIO ALBANIA
		Guajira is a state in the northeastern part of the country.
		The climate in Guajira is that of a sub-tropical desert.
		Colombia is a country of beautiful flowers...the most spectacular is Colombia's national flower: the orchid.
	www.ob1.com /iae/Schools/Colegio/Albania.htm (1279 words)

	AlterNet: Crimes of Big Tobacco
		Colombia's other Caribbean ports, Santa Marta and Barranquilla, host sophisticated trucking and railroad depots right on the docks that are designed to facilitate the movement of large quantities of duty-paid cargo into the Colombian interior.
		Since Colombia passed a new Constitution in 1991, decentralizing federal power, the tribe has been in charge of most of La Guajira; the bulk of the state is a reserva indigena, in which they enjoy a limited form of autonomy.
		As in Colombia, those who argued on behalf of the tobacco industry were also major recipients of the industry's largesse: A report by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids reveals that Republicans received 82 percent of the more than $18 million that the tobacco industry has poured into political campaigns since 1997.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=12938 (5830 words)

	La Guajira - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ChevronTexaco and Ecopetrol Sign an Extension Agreement for the Guajira Area A Association Contract in Colombia; Agreement Allows for the Further Development of Natural Gas Reserves.
		Colombia: Future of investment in La Guajira gas field uncertain.
		Colombia: La Guajira lobbies for steel port project.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-laguajir.html (253 words)

	3.8 The Guajira Peninsula to Sta. Marta
		As most of the demersal species are relatively longlived, the variation in biomass between surveys does not point to a variation in stock size, but more to migration across the area of analysis or to statistical errors due to high sampling variance.
		The increase of biomass of snappers in both depth strata in the fourth survey points to a migration from the mouth of the Gulf of Venezuela, as the increase of snappers in Colombia corresponds to a sudden decline of the species in the Gulf.
		The December survey points to a peak in the resources, with a biomass of commercially important species at a level of 14 000 tonnes of which 11000 are snappers.
	www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/FNS/X6078E/x6078e0d.htm (1176 words)

	Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis -- Colombia, 1995
		An outbreak of Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) that began in northwestern Venezuela in April 1995 has spread westward to the Guajira peninsula and to Colombia (Figure_1), resulting in an estimated minimum of 13,000 cases in humans and an undetermined number of equine deaths.
		Based on a random survey of 250 residents of Manaure, a recent history of acute illness compatible with VEE was present in 57% of respondents (Figure_2); 4% reported associated convulsions, and one person died (case-fatality rate=0.7%).
		Control measures instituted by the government of Colombia include vaccination of equines in La Guajira, restriction of equine movement from and within the state, large-scale application of insecticides, public education and community mobilization campaigns to eradicate mosquito breeding sites, issuance of guidelines on case-management and referral, and surveillance of humans and equines.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00039070.htm (1275 words)

	Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem Connection
		Those harmed in Colombia are perhaps not so many, but the harm they suffer is incalculably greater: the loss of health, land, homes, livelihoods, and even life.
		One was the story of the Wayúu, the largest indigenous group in Colombia, who over the past 500 years have retreated to the barren, desert-like lands of the northern Guajira and have preserved their language, Wayuunaiki, and their culture.
		The mine itself occupies a 30-mile by 5-mile swath of land in the southern Guajira, and its operations have rendered much of the surrounding land uninhabitable due to blasting, dust, contamination, and loss of pastureland and work opportunities.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia128.htm (1034 words)

	americas.org - UNHCR Starts Documentation of Wayuu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		LA GUAJIRA, Colombia, August 2 (UNHCR) - At the northern-most tip of South America, the La Guajira peninsula juts out like an exploring toe dipping into the warm turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea.
		To the Wayuu, the international boundary that separates the Colombian from the Venezuelan Guajira has no reality outside the maps, and they wilfully ignore it, engaging in what outsiders insist on calling "smuggling" but what to them is only a means to survive in this unforgiving environment.
		In what is widely believed to be a bid to secure trafficking routes in the Alta Guajira region, the armed men killed a still unknown number of victims.
	www.americas.org /item_15884 (903 words)

	What should I see in La Guajira \| Colombia Guide
		Guajira´s a bit to dangerous for you GIB.
		I was in Guajira around Christmas time 2003 and had a lovely time.
		I was considering driving around La Guajira in a rented car.
	poorbuthappy.com /colombia/node/7979 (651 words)

	Guajira \| Colombia Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Colombia's Divided Society United in Reality-Show Battle for Survival
		We have arranged a private, recommended by some locals, on the side (actually he came from Guajira and was currently living in Santa Marta).
		The trip to see the stark contrast to the rest of the topography of Colombia is worth it.
	poorbuthappy.com /colombia/node/7090 (798 words)

	Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Cerrejon Zona Norte mine in Colombia's Guajira peninsula was developed as a joint venture between Exxon and the Colombian government.
		The indigenous Wayuu people of the Guajira peninsula and Afro-Colombian peasants in the region have been progressively displaced over the past 20 years as the mine has been built and expanded.
		Residents demanded that their town be "relocated"--that is, that the government and the company rebuild the town in a new spot, allowing the collective life of the village to continue.
	home.comcast.net /~nscolombia/index2.htm (889 words)

	BHP Billiton in the province of La Guajira, Colombia
		In 1977 a Contract of Association was signed establishing a partnership between the Colombian governments Carbocol (Carbones de Colombia) and Intercor (International Colombia Resource Corporation), a fully-owned subsidiary of US multinational Exxon.
		The project included the mine in the southern part of the Guajira peninsula, a 150 km railway from the mine northeastwards to the coast, and a port.
		On May 9th, 2002, the Supreme Court of Colombia ruled that Tabaco must be reconstructed on a new site, as the villagers had been demanding.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/bhp04.htm (2070 words)

	Caribbean Coast: Guajira Peninsula coast - Coasts of Colombia
		The Quaternary of the Guajira Peninsula is mainly represented by extensive colluvial-alluvial deposits, and recent sandy barriers and marine lagoons.
		The Guajira Peninsula coastline from Castilletes (Gulf of Maracaibo) to Dibulla is about 280 km long (Fig.
		South of Cabo de La Vela, the Guajira Peninsula coast is dominated by narrow beaches, minor deltaic accumulations, and spit-lagoon segments near the mouths of the primary coastal rivers (Fig.
	coastal.er.usgs.gov /coasts-colombia/caribbean/guajira.html (250 words)

	ICT [2004/06/22] Wayuu, Embera endure brutal attack
		BAHIA DE PORTETE, Colombia - The Colombian independent news agency ANNCOL reported that on April 18 the Wayuu indigenous community of Bahia de Portete in northern Colombia's La Guajira peninsula was sacked by paramilitaries, who killed 12 residents.
		Following a visit to the nation, UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland told a news conference in May that Colombia is "by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western Hemisphere." With 2 million displaced by the war, Colombia is second only to Sudan and Congo in global refugee crises.
		Egeland said he is "particularly concerned" with the situation in remote areas "where Indian tribes and peasant communities are totally trapped without access by us, the international community, because the guerrillas don't allow entry, because the paramilitary forces don't allow our entry, or because the military offensives...
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1087913548 (498 words)

	Virtual Andean Tourist Routes - The greatest ! - La Guajira, between sea and desert - Colombia /Andean Community - 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The women do beautiful embroidery work in bright colors that is attractive to tourists as souvenirs of their visits, handicrafts such as Guajira shawls, slippers with large pompoms, back packs, "chinchorros" or hammocks, and "atarrayas," or round fishing nets.
		From the northernmost extreme of South America, in the Department of la Guajira, Colombia beckons to intrepid travelers who, attracted by the adventure, enter the desert after enjoying its beaches.
		The thousand-year-old Wayúu culture, occupant of these lands, extracts the salt from seawater by non-industrial methods, piling it up in huge mounds to be sold later throughout the country.
	www.comunidadandina.org /ingles/tourism/greatest/i_guajira.htm (570 words)

	La Guajira Colombia Cabo de la Vela Ecoturismo - Hoteles Manaure Punta Gallinas Tours La Guajira Turismo Colombia
		Somos un Operador comunitario de turismo alternativo, conformado por una red de familias Wayuu, de toda la Alta Guajira, Que tiene en esta actividad, una fuente de desarrollo que da prioridad a la riqueza natural y cultural de nuestro territorio.
		Travesía tipo aventura en camioneta o camperos entre los lugares visitados de 2 a 5 horas de duración con observación permanente de la flora y la fauna del desierto.
		Punta Gallinas es el extremo norte de Colombia y Suramérica, un impresionante escenario natural de mesetas, dunas y acantilados rocosos, que emergen del mar, abrazando a la bella Bahía Hondita.
	www.turiscolombia.andes.com /planes_la_guajira_colombia.htm (2074 words)

	Colombian National Indigenous Organization: SOS from the Wayuu people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At no moment did the Uribia mayor, as maximum authority in the indigenous capital of Colombia, make any statements about our plight, nor did the governor of Guajira, when everyone in the department knew of the massacre.
		La comunidad indígena Wayúu de la Guajira, Colombia, quienes hemos sido desplazados de nuestro territorio ancestral por parte de elementos pertenecientes a grupos paramilitares (mal llamados autodefensas), las cuales llegaron a la comunidad apoderándose del territorio, maltratando, matando y destruyendo nuestro cementerio símbolo de antepasados y demostración de propiedad.
		Los habitante de la comunidad son 580 de diferentes clanes, quienes abandonaron con el dolor de su alma su territorio, sus animales, sus pertenencias ancestrales, allá en el territorio no hay naden todos emigraron a diferentes partes, para buscar seguridad y protección para nuestras vidas.
	www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=21345 (899 words)

	Making it through Colombia - photos of scenery in Colombia on Worldisround (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Scenery in Colombia - travel photos - Colombia is dangerous, but nothing that can't be avoided with a bit of the good old...
		Colombia is dangerous, but nothing that can't be avoided with a bit of the good old common sense nature should have instilled us.
		This will be my first time in Colombia, and I am really looking forward to it, despite the dangers...which I can stay clear of!
	www.worldisround.com /articles/14811/index.html (248 words)

	Flor de Mayo, La Guajira, Colombia - Houses / Homes / Real Estate property for sale or for rent - and vacation rentals
		In many cases vacation rentals in Flor de Mayo, Colombia are offered by the owners of the property but in some instances real estate agents offer vacation rentals in Flor de Mayo.
		It is important to remember that your home may be at risk if you do not keep up repayments on a mortgage or other loan secured on it.
		Your rate of return on real estate in Flor de Mayo, Colombia may be higher than many other investments.
	www.propertyworld.com /_Colombia_La%20Guajira_Flor%20de%20Mayo (872 words)

	Venezuela and Colombia to build gas pipeline - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said yesterday the construction of the gas pipeline would begin in 2006 with the projected cost, more than 230 mln usd, carried by Venezuela which will own and run it.
		The agreement signed here by the two leaders calls for 4.24 million cubic meters of Colombian natural gas to be pumped daily to the CRP for the first seven years of operation of the gas pipeline.
		At the end of the period, when Colombia's natural gas reserves are expected to be are exhausted, the pipeline's flow will be reversed with Venezuela supplying gas to Colombia, according to the terms of the agreement.
	www.forbes.com /business/feeds/afx/2005/11/25/afx2353770.html (499 words)

	CURRICULUM VITAE
		Assessment of the state of sanitation of five Municipal capitals in the Department of the Guajira, Colombia.
		Member of a team that conducted field research into the management of solid wastes in the 15 District/Municipal capitals in the Department of the Guajira, Colombia.
		Sanitation Assessment of the Municipal Capitals of Riohacha, Albania, Uribia, El Molino and Urumita of the Department of the Guajira.
	www.roboroz.ca /bios/cv-aorozco.htm (749 words)

	The Sea Slug Forum - Bursatella leachii
		Hi, my name is Adriana Aguirre, I'm a former biology student actually performing my thesis dissertation in the macrofauna of sea grass meadows (Thalassia testudinum) of La Guajira, Colombia.
		In one of my surveys lots of Bursatella leachii (aprox 167 ind. in a 60 m2 transect) were found, and after asking Nestor Ardila we concluded it could be a reproductive conduct due to the linear disposition in which they occurred.
		Aguirre, A.A, 2006 (Mar 13) Bursatella leachii from Guajira, Colombia.
	www.seaslugforum.net /find.cfm?id=16078 (265 words)

	colombia el Mercado de intercambios, publicidad, trueque e intercambio.
		colombia el Mercado de intercambios, publicidad, trueque e intercambio.
		107.358 empresas registradas 9.732 empresas en Colombia 1.268.190 intercambios iniciados
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	colombia.acambiode.com (355 words)

	ASN Aircraft accident description Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VIR HK-1810 - Guajira
		At 14:18 the Caravelle took off from Riohacha for a flight to Medellín.
		The worst accident in Colombia (at the time)
		EC-ATX was sold to TAC Colombia in February 1976.
	www.aviation-safety.net /database/record.php?id=19801221-0 (148 words)

	01.31.95.IDB PROGRAM WILL BENEFIT INDIGENOUS GROUP IN COLOMBIA
		The resources, provided by the Japan Special Fund, will be used for investments in water supply systems and consulting services that will improve agricultural and sanitation practices.
		The project is intended to serve as an example to other communities on the Guajira peninsula, one of the poorest areas in Colombia, on how to improve living standards through better agricultural and sanitary practices while utilizing scarce natural resources in a sustainable manner.
		The total cost of the program is $410,000, with local counterpart funding totaling $125,000.
	www.iadb.org /exr/PRENSA/1995/cp01995e.htm (268 words)

	Colombia Travel - Hotels Tours Accommodation Lodging Colombia Travel Information Tourism Tourist Atractions
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	www.turiscolombia.andes.com /colombia_travel.htm (286 words)

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