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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Peninsula
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	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Peninsula&StartAt=21 (1392 words)

	Guajira - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guajira, a governmental department of the country Colombia.
		Guajira Peninsula, a peninsula at the northernmost point of South America, split between the countries of Colombia and Venezuela.
		Guajira Indians, a tribe of indians indigenous to the Guajira Peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guajira_Peninsula (116 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)

	Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A peninsula (from Latin "paene insula", almost island) is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides.
		A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, promontory, bill, or spit.
		Iberian Peninsula, continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra and the British dependency of Gibraltar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peninsula (262 words)

	Cultural Survival
		This was how Aura Pérez, a resident of the village of Tabaco in Colombia’s remote Guajira peninsula, described her home before it and the rest of the village was razed by Cerrejón Zona Norte, the largest open-pit coal mine in the world.
		In the northern part of the Guajira peninsula, where it is too dry for farming, they raise goats and cows; to the south, they also farm.
		The small communities of the Guajira survived because their arid and windswept peninsula held little of value to outsiders—until events in the rest of the world during the 1970s changed things.
	www.culturalsurvival.org /publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1939 (2794 words)

	'Sea Shepherds' to Cultivate Pearls
		The fame of La Guajira pearls dates to 1499, when captain Alonso de Ojeda and geographers Juan de la Cosa and Américo Vespucio explored the Caribbean coasts, reaching Cape Vela, the first continental Spanish settlement, which in 1501 became the Coquibacoa government seat.
		According to biologist Guerra, if La Guajira can replicate what the fisherfolk of ASOPLAM have done, "it would generate important income for the Wayúu." But changes must be made to legislation so that it covers "communal territory rights over the sea," he said.
		The indigenous peoples of the peninsula consider the sea a big pasture, in which fish are the livestock.
	www.tierramerica.net /english/2003/1004/iacentos.shtml (831 words)

	Jayuir Foundation - The Wayuu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Wayuu are a pastoral tribe living on the Guajira Peninsula, on the north coast of Colombia and Venezuela where they live without taking into account the frontier between the two countries.
		Their territory extends over approximately 15,300 km2, of which 12,000 km2 are in Colombia in the Department of the Guajira and 3,380 km2 are in the state of Zulia in Venezuela.
		Merciless sunlight, constant winds and very high evaporation rate are distinctive factors of the Guajira – in short, all the characteristics of a desert.
	www.geocities.com /jayuir/wayuu_en.html (379 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub (NT1308)
		The largest enclave is located in the Guajira Peninsula, which is the northernmost point of South America, in both northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia.
		In the Guajira Peninsula precipitation occurs from August to November, while in the rest of the ecoregion, precipitation occurs from May to November.
		This xeric scrub ecoregion covers most of the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia, extending eastwards into the Maracaibo Basin of Venezuela, and occurs to the west in coastal patches of various size near Barranquilla.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1308_full.html (1311 words)

	Into The Land of The Stone Age Bootlegger: Editors' Choice - Flying Carpet - Travelers' Tales
		Or north through the Guajira Peninsula, along a branching network of corrugated ruts that ran past the hidden homesteads of the fiercely aloof Wayuu and terminated at sheltered bays and temporary airstrips used by contrabandistas.
		The Guajira, it turns out, is populated with single malt scotch drinkers who believe the stars are born when the moon and sun copulate.
		The Guajira is often called “lawless,” a misunderstanding reflecting Colombia's unwillingness to police the region, rather than a breakdown of local society.
	travelerstales.com /carpet/000150.shtml (2081 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Peninsula was once an island, but shifting sands eventually formed a land bridge that linked it to the mainland.
		The stretch of land that connects the bulk of the peninsula with the mainland still consists of fluctuating sand dunes that constantly threaten to bury the highway passing through them.
		The main city on the Peninsula is Punta Fijo, on the Western shore.
	www.adicora.com /guia/geography.html (266 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.
		This hot and arid region, visited in the past by English, French and Dutch privateers and corsairs who exchanged contraband from the West Indies for salt and pearls from the local inhabitants, is the home of the proud Wayuu people, the most numerous of Colombia's indigenous groups.
		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.
	www.americas.org /item_15884 (901 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)

	{ The Guayú dossier of Cultures del Món }
		The “Guayú”, as the natives also known as “Goajiro” call themselves, have for some centuries inhabited the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia.
		The peninsula inhabited by the Guayú is characterised by a semi-desert ecosystem of large plains with low mountain ranges.
		The territory is divided into three main regions: the Upper Guajira (Wuinpumüin, or “to the land of the water”, Middle Guajira (Wuopumüin, or “to the land of the paths”) and Lower Guajira (Uchimüin).
	www.unescocat.org /cultmon/en/dossiers/guayu.html (301 words)

	3.8 The Guajira Peninsula to Sta. Marta
		Some aggregations of medium density which represented fish in schools and layers were found in all except the last survey.
		Most of these are seen to be located to the north and west of the Guajira Peninsula.
		The highest catch rates were obtained in March in the depth range 50-70 m at stations north-east and north of the Guajira Peninsula.
	www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/FNS/X6078E/x6078e0d.htm (1176 words)

	Guajira Peninsula - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Guajira Peninsula
		It occupies an arid and sparsely populated peninsula on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Maracaibo, with an area of 12,220 sq km/4,718 sq mi and a population (1996) of 433,361, mostly comprised of Guajiro Indians.
		It became part of the Republic of Colombia in 1891.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Guajira+Peninsula (144 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- The Colombian Connection -- Jan. 29, 1979 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Another is that Guajira is remote and inaccessible, hard to police from Bogota, with a long and irregular Caribbean shoreline that is ideal for smugglers.
		Even the arid and low-lying fields of the Guajira peninsula, which are irrigated and farmed with tractors, grow a good green grass.
		The peninsula is littered with planes that were overloaded with tons of marijuana and crashed while trying to take off.
	time-proxy.yaga.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,912309,00.html (4471 words)

	Colombian epidemic winds down amid fears of higher death toll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Doctors blame the deaths on September outbreaks of equine encephalitis and dengue fever, which sickened thousands of people, many of them impoverished Indians, in Colombia's remote Guajira peninsula.
		Although the official death toll from the outbreak throughout the Guajira peninsula is 26, authorities fear the number may be higher.
		In the Guajira city of Manaure, the death rate was six for every thousand infected people, suggesting the number of dead throughout the peninsula could be higher than the official toll.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/10/27/epidemic.html (241 words)

	Violations of the Human Rights by Exxon
		There are other non-indigenous ethnic groups in la Guajira, such as the fl communities, known as afrocolombians, who have settlements throughout the peninsula and are particularly concentrated in the mining zone of Cerrejón and the southern part of the department.
		The way in which control of the indigenous territories in the northern part of the peninsula was wrested for the construction of the port, the road and the railway was a spectacular maneuver of fraudulent dispossession.
		This settlement is close to the Cerrejón mines in the county of Barrancas, in la Guajira, just a few kilometers from the currently threatened population of Tabaco.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/exxon01.htm (4423 words)

	COLOMBIA: Wayúu 'Sea Shepherds' to Cultivate Pearls
		Thus originated the multi-ethnic population that today inhabits the peninsula, located on the northern coast of South America, covering 21,000 square km, shared by Colombia and Venezuela.
		During the hot afternoons in Riohacha, a Colombian city on the peninsula, the elderly sit in rocking chairs in the doorways to their homes.
		The indigenous peoples of the peninsula consider the sea an enormous pasture, in which fish are the livestock.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=20521 (1027 words)

	Where desert meets city: linked to the harsh La Guajira peninsula, these native peoples face the intersection of ...
		Where desert meets city: linked to the harsh La Guajira peninsula, these native peoples face the intersection of tradition and modernity.
		On the sandy, brush- and cactus-covered peninsula of La Guajira, the Epiayu family lives in adobe homes, raises sheep and goats, and cultivates beans, yuca, and corn.
		Perhaps the Wayuus acquired their endurance from the harsh and remote peninsula which gave them the name outsiders still use--La Guajira.
	www.accessmylibrary.com /coms2/summary_0286-14381349_ITM (579 words)

	Wayuu, Embera endure brutal attack : ICT [2004/06/22]
		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.
		According to the press office of the Army's First Division, the Army is only sowing "seeds of friendship with the population" of La Guajira.
		During the last three years the Wayuu communities have suffered numerous attacks and assassinations at the hands of paramilitaries supported by troops of the Colombian Army's Second Brigade, based in the city of Barranquilla.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1087913548 (589 words)

	Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem Connection
		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 other was the story of villagers in the fertile southern Guajira, some of them Wayúu, many of them Afro-Colombian migrants who have fled violence elsewhere in the country over the past 100 years.
		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)

	Amerindian Hidalgos: Impression Management Among the Guajiro of Colombia and Venezuela - Benson Saler
		Late one morning, as I drove along the Caribbean coast of the Guajira Peninsula, I spotted them in the distance.
		But, "the three field marshals on parade," as I call them, tell us much about the Guajiro, who live in the Guajira Peninsula of northern Colombia and Venezuela.
		About four-fifths of the Guajira Peninsula, the cultural heartland of the Guajiro Indians, belongs to Colombia; the remainder is Venezuelan territory.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1989/december/Sa15404.htm (351 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » "Paradise" found as UNHCR starts documentation in northern Colombia
		This hot and arid region, visited in the past by English, French and Dutch privateers and corsairs who exchanged contraband from the West Indies for salt and pearls from the local inhabitants, is the home of the proud Wayúu people, the most numerous of Colombia's indigenous groups.
		To the Wayúu, 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.
		Although occasional violence between Wayúu clans was not uncommon, the region had been largely spared the worst effects of the long bloody internal war that has marred Colombia during the last 40 years.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/c07068a2143e6fabc1256ee500277045 (883 words)

	IMPUNITY: Cases - Guzmán Quintero Torres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The first, on May 10, was headlined, "Army Kills Two Women." In the story, he alleged that a patrol from the Rondón Mechanized Unit fired on a bus traveling in the Conejo district of the Guajira peninsula, killing three women, including one who was pregnant, and eight children in it.
		The first, on Monday, May 10, was headlined, "Army Kills Two Women." In the story, Quintero alleged that a patrol from the Rondón Mechanized Unit fired on a bus traveling in the Conejo district of the Guajira peninsula, killing three women, including one who was pregnant, and eight children in it.
		Her body, with several gunshot wounds and signs of torture to her breasts, was found four days later.
	www.impunidad.com /cases/guzmanE.htm (1696 words)

	Coal Mines and Communities in Colombia: The Salem
		The beginnings of mining in the Guajira peninsula severely disrupted the livelihoods of the Guajiro or Wayúu people, an indigenous group of approximately 120,000 that have lived since before the Spanish conquest in the northern borderlands of Colombia and Venezuela, including the Guajira peninsula.
		The southern portion of the Guajira peninsula is more fertile, and has attracted both large ranchers and displaced peasants from other parts of Colombia.
		Locarno, who was originally from Fundación, Magdalena, was killed in front of their fellow workers; Orcasita, from Villanueva, Guajira, was taken away; his tortured body was later found nearby.[50] They had repeatedly asked Drummond to abide by an agreement allowing them to sleep at the mine for their own protection, to no avail.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Country/colombia04.htm (6434 words)

	Luke's South American Diary - August 1996
		I was heading north out of Maracaibo along the coast of the Gulf of Venezuela (I looked in on a couple of beaches, but they were not very appetising), onto the Guajira peninsula, shared by Venezuela and Colombia.
		My destination on the Guajira peninsula, and probably my main reason for driving so far in the first place, was Laguna de Sinamaica, where as soon as I opened the car door I was pounced on by touts for the much-vaunted boat trip around the lagoon.
		I drove a little way further up the peninsula, past extensive salt flats, where salt was being bagged, dotted with little islands where cacti somehow managed to grow.
	www.lukemastin.com /diary/aug96.html (3111 words)

	Hugo Chavez Joins With Terrorists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Recently they have appeared, as alien visitors, on the Venezuelan side of the Guajira Peninsula, a territory shared with Colombia.
		The Islamic fanatics of Hezbollah are rapidly infiltrating the tribe of the Wayuu.
		Hezbollah militants are indoctrinating the members of this tribe to convert them into Islamic fanatics in charge of disseminating the terrorist message that has already created chaos, death, and misery in the Middle East.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2006/9/1/163001.shtml?s=lh (1895 words)

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