LA GUAJIRA

lä gwähēˈrä, peninsula, c.100 mi (160 km) long, N Colombia, extending into the Caribbean Sea. Punta Gallinas, at the tip, is the northernmost point of South America. On the sparsely populated peninsula are outliers of the Cordillera Oriental, surrounded by hot, arid plains. Salt and pearls are found along the shoreline.

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books on: La Guajira  - 114 results

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The Politics of South American Boundaries
Book by Carlos A. Parodi; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: South America--Boundaries, South America--Foreign Relations
...Venezuela, Venezuelas western boundary in the Guajira Peninsula was the Cabo de la Vela. However...recognized that Venezuela lost most of the Guajira Peninsula in the 1941 Treaty. Thus...with a map as front cover in which the Guajira Peninsula was part of the national territory...
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The Political Economy of Smuggling: Regional Informal Economies in Early Bourbon New Granada
Book by Lance Grahn; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Colombia--Economic Conditions, Colombia--History--To 1810, Smuggling--Colombia--History
...and Amerigo Vespucci sailed around the Guajira peninsula in 1499. 3 Extending northeastward...the Caribbean Sea for 150 miles, the Guajira peninsula jutted out into the eastern...C. a damp forest environment, the Guajira was, by the time of Spanish contact...
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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Book by Cecil H. Brown; Oxford, 1999
Subjects: Indians--Cultural Assimilation, Indians--Languages--Lexicology, Historical, Languages In Contact--North America--History, Languages, Mixed--North America--History
...Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie 62:111-205. 91. Guajira 1878-1913 Maipuran; La Guajira, Colombia; t = 45, l = S:27, n = 25...1913 . Contribucion la estudio de la lengua Guajira . Caracas: Lit. y Tip. del Comercio. Uterga...
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The New Latin American Mission History
Book by Erick Langer, Robert H. Jackson; University of Nebraska Press, 1995
Subjects: Catholic Church--Missions--Latin America--History, Evangelistic Work--Latin America, Indians--Missions--Latin America--History, Latin America--Church History
...governments attempt to exert its control in the Guajira had failed again. In the end, Guajiro...recognized their critical weaknesses on the Guajira frontier. In the 1780s they disbanded...death reduced the Capuchin presence in the Guajira from six to a single priest in 1800...
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The Colombian Caribbean: A Regional History, 1870-1950
Book by Eduardo Posada-Carbó; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Atlantic Coast (Colombia)--Economic conditions, Atlantic Coast (Colombia)--History, Atlantic Coast (Colombia)--Social conditions, Colombia--History, Regionalism--Colombia--History
...for smuggling were several points in the Guajira, which helped give the peninsula an outlaw character. Goods were smuggled into the Guajira and thence distributed to Santa Marta...It is virtually true that Riohacha and Guajira live from contraband, a US consular report...
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journal articles on: La Guajira  - 12 results

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1.
Coerced Labor in Venezuela, 1880-1936
Journal article by Peter Linder; The Historian, Vol. 57, 1994
Subjects: Peonage--Venezuela, Slave labor--Venezuela, Slavery--Venezuela, Venezuela--History
...They also imported Indian labor from the Guajira Peninsula virtually as slaves, and contracted...brought from other areas. Indians from the Guajira Peninsula, two hundred miles north of...village of Castilletes on the coast of the Guajira Peninzula became the center of the "trata...
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Natural Resources and Conflict in Colombia: Complex Dynamics, Narrow Relationships
Journal article by Stéphanie Lavaux; International Journal, Vol. 62, 2006
Subjects: Colombia, Conflicts, Economic conditions, Environmental impact, Natural resources, Political power
...platinum, copper, nickel, natural gas, and coal (in the Guajira region in particular) are also heavily exploited. Finally...decrease on kidnappings in carboniferous departments as La Guajira might be due to the increase of payments for this type of extortion...
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Trelles Paz, Diego. Hudson El Redentor (Y Otros Relatos Edificantes Sobre El Fracaso)
Journal article by Pablo Brescia; Chasqui, Vol. 33, 2004
Subjects: Hudson el redentor (y otros relatos edificantes sobre el fracaso) (Libro)
...al personaje de Goyito, un homosexual que ama al Cadete/Guajira y que, luego de una fiesta de excesos, alcanza un sueno preciado...agarras, y arrecho ... shhp ... Esto solo lo haria contigo Guajira, no sabes Chupa, carajo! No hables! ... shhp ... shhp...
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"Joe'i Korsou?" (Who Is the True Curacaoan?): A Musical Dialogue on Identity in Twentieth-Century Curacao
Journal article by Nanette De Jong; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 26, 2006
Subjects: Cuban culture--Influence, Cuban culture--Social aspects, Cultural identity--Analysis, Curacao--Economic aspects, Curacao--Social aspects
...and dance genre repressed in the nineteenth century, and the guajira (a subgenre of the son), which combined Spanish traditions...traditional Cuban music such as danzon, son, guaracha, and guajira. Most band members used typical Cuban instruments, including...
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Driving a Dead Body through the Nation: Death and Allegory in the Film Guantanamera
Journal article by Edna Rodriguez-Mangual; Chasqui, Vol. 31, 2002
Subjects: Guantanamera (Pelicula)
...Guantanamera The story of the film is framed by a popular Cuban song "Guajira Guantanamera," originally composed by Joseito Fernandez Diaz...radio show Fernandez would improvise lyrics to the beat of the Guajira music denouncing injustice, as well as telling the latest...
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magazine articles on: La Guajira  - 22 results

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Where Desert Meets City: Linked to the Harsh la Guajira Peninsula, These Native Peoples Face the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity
Magazine article by Mike Ceaser; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 56, November 2004
Subjects: Goajiros--History, Goajiros--Social aspects
...Desert Meets City: Linked to the Harsh la Guajira Peninsula, These Native Peoples Face...and cactus-covered peninsula of La Guajira, the Epiayu family lives in adobe homes...them the name outsiders still use--La Guajira. During the colonial period, the European...
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Big Tobacco : Uncovering the Industry's Multibillion-Dollar Global Smuggling Network
Magazine article by Mark Schapiro; The Nation, Vol. 274, May 6, 2002
Subjects: British-American Tobacco Company Ltd.--Cases, Colombia, Crime, Philip Morris Companies Inc.--Cases, Smuggling--Investigations, Tobacco industry--Investigations
...the end of their journey at Colombias La Guajira port of Portette, they might as well...hot, sparsely populated province of La Guajira, which sticks out of Colombias Caribbean...parts of the year, the only way into La Guajira is by air or boat. Colombias other Caribbean...
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Shavian Matters
Magazine article by Michael P. Zirpolo; IAJRC Journal, Vol. 40, August 2007
...Piece En Forme de Habanera, (Ravel); Guajira, (Gould); Corcovado, (Milhaud...nice little piece in 7/4 time called Guajira." Ravels Habanera contains harmonies...home of his mothers family. Goulds Guajira is an absolutely charming, melodious...
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South America's Emerging Energy Titan
Magazine article; Global Finance, Vol. 11, January 1997
Subjects: Colombia, Electric utilities, Emerging markets, Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos, Energy resources, Foreign investment, Growth industries, Natural gas utilities, Petroleum industry, Privatization
...other fields, operated by Texaco and Amoco in the provinces of Guajira and Santander. Key to Ecopetrols thinking about gas is the...in the Cerrejon Zona Norte coal joint venture with Exxon in Guajira. Nor is privatization by any means stopping at the natural...
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Mining Disaster
Magazine article by Tom Boswell; E, Vol. 7, July 1996
Subjects: Coal industry--Environmental aspects, Colombia--Environmental aspects, Exxon Minerals Co.--Management, Mining industry--Environmental aspects
...his people, the Wayuu, an indigenous tribe inhabiting the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia, the northernmost point in South America...government entered into a pact with Exxon to extract coal from the Guajira Peninsula. The contract was one of the largest joint ventures...
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newspaper articles on: La Guajira  - 13 results

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Contraband Fuels Economy, Frustrates Authorities
Newspaper article by John Otis; The Washington Times, January 12, 1998
Subjects: Colombia
...Thompson hitched a ride on a riverboat full of contraband whiskey in the northern Colombian state of La Guajira. "There is no law in Guajira," he wrote in the now-defunct National Observer. "No customs, no immigration, no white men, no...
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Breeze Whispers Aruba's Secrets; beneath the Surface of 'Happy Island' Lies a Shady Culture of Cartels, Illegals
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 21, 2005
...second. I told my wife and two kids goodbye and took off for La Guajira a Colombian peninsula on the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of...chance to make a much better living." On a clear day in La Guajira, you can see Aruba. The captain of the ship that would take...
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Colombia Faces Border Tensions with Venezuela
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 10, 2009
Subjects: Chavez, Hugo
...provinces of Arauca and Apure over recent days. Naval units also have been deployed around the northern border peninsula of La Guajira, where frontier observation posts have been reinforced and surveillance flights increased, according to Colombian officers...
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Havana Great Night out with the Cubans; DANCE
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 25, 2011
Subjects: Dance, Dancing
...plantations of the Caribbean. Flamenco in Havana becomes much less stompingly aggressive than it is in Seville, while the Guajira en Flor is a sinuous and courtly dance that seduces by its subtlety. Then, just before the interval, El Manicero raises...
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Today's Best Bets
Newspaper article by Frappa Stout; The Washington Times, October 24, 1998
...of the rhythms of Cuba. Their range of styles includes Danzon, Son-Montuno, Guaguanco, Mozambique, Afro, Mambo and Guajira, to name a few. Hear them play at 8 tonight at George Washington Universitys Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW. $20...
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encyclopedia articles on: La Guajira  - 3 results

 
 
1.
La Guajira
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LA GUAJIRA la gwahe ra, peninsula, c.100 mi (160 km) long, N Colombia, extending into the Caribbean Sea. Punta Gallinas, at the...
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Colombia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...adjacent to Cartagena, is the terminus of the pipeline from the Barrancabermeja oil fields. In the north, separating the La Guajira peninsula from the rest of the country, is the magnificent Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, which contains Colombias highest...
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Punta Gallinas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PUNTA GALLINAS Colombia: see La Guajira . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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