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Guajira (flamenco)
Guajira may refer to: * Guajira Peninsula, a peninsula in the northernmost part of South America shared by Colombia and Venezuela * Guajiro people (Wayuu), a South American ethnic group inhabiting northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela * guajiro bean (also known as the kapeshuna bean), a set of heirloom cultivars of the cowpea grown mainly in northeastern Colombia * La Guajira Department, a department of Colombia which includes most of the Guajira Peninsula * La Guajira Desert, a desert which covers most of the Guajira Peninsula * Guajira (music), a style of Cuban music, song or dance * Guajira (TV series), ''Guajira'' (TV series), a Colombian telenovela * Guajira (slang), is also another way to denote a woman who works and lives in a rural area. See also * La Guajira (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guajira Peninsula
The Guajira Peninsula (, also spelled ''Goajira'', mainly in colonial period texts, ) is a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean. It is the northernmost peninsula in South America and has an area of extending from the Manaure Bay (Colombia) to the Calabozo Ensenada in the Gulf of Venezuela (Venezuela), and from the Caribbean to the Serranía del Perijá mountains range. It was the subject of a historic dispute between Venezuela and Colombia in 1891, and on arbitration was awarded to the latter and joined to its Magdalena Department. Nowadays, most of the territory is part of Colombia, making it part of La Guajira Department. The remaining strip is part of the Venezuelan Zulia State. The northernmost part of the peninsula is called Punta Gallinas (12° 28´ N) and is also considered the northernmost part of mainland South America. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guajiro People
The Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayú, Guajiro, Wahiro) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language is part of the Arawakan language family. Throughout their history, they have resisted the Spanish, rural land owners, and the Catholic Church. Wayuu tradition remains, and their artisan industry is one of the biggest handicraft exports in present-day Colombia. Geography The Wayuu inhabit the arid Guajira Peninsula straddling the Venezuela-Colombia border, on the Caribbean Sea coast. Two major rivers flow through this mostly harsh environment: the Ranchería River in Colombia and the El Limón River in Venezuela, representing the main sources of water. They're accompanied by artificial ponds designed to hold rainwater during the rain season. The territory has equatorial weather seasons: a rainy season from September to December, which they call ''Juyapu''; a dry season, known by them as ''Jemial'', from De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowpea
The cowpea (''Vigna unguiculata'') is an annual herbaceous legume from the genus '' Vigna''. Its tolerance for sandy soil and low rainfall have made it an important crop in the semiarid regions across Africa and Asia. It requires very few inputs, as the plant's root nodules are able to fix atmospheric nitrogen, making it a valuable crop for resource-poor farmers and well-suited to intercropping with other crops. The whole plant is used as forage for animals, with its use as cattle feed likely responsible for its name. Four subspecies of cowpeas are recognised, of which three are cultivated. A high level of morphological diversity is found within the species with large variations in the size, shape, and structure of the plant. Cowpeas can be erect, semierect ( trailing), or climbing. The crop is mainly grown for its seeds, which are high in protein, although the leaves and immature seed pods can also be consumed. Cowpeas were domesticated in Africa and are one of the olde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Guajira Department
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. The capital city of the department is Riohacha. Various indigenous tribes have populated the arid plains of the region long before the Spanish expeditions reached the Americas. In 1498, Alonso de Ojeda sailed around the peninsula of La Guajira, but the first European to set foot in what is known today as La Guajira was the Spanish explorer Juan de la Cosa in 1499. During the colonial era, the territory of La Guajira was disputed by the governors of Santa Marta and Venezuela, owing to deposits of pearls. English pirates, Frenchmen, and Germans also fought for control of the territory. Martin Fernandez de Enciso founded Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela, the first colonial village in the territory. In 1535, Nicolás de Federmán refoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Guajira Desert
The La Guajira Desert ( Wayuu: ''Woumainkat Wajiira'', Spanish: ''Desierto de La Guajira'') is a desert located in northern Colombia and Venezuela, approximately north of Bogotá, covering most of the La Guajira Peninsula at the northernmost tip of South America. It is the continent's largest desert north of the equator. Most of the region is within Colombia's La Guajira Department, though a small portion is in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. The area holds immense coal reserves which are exploited in a zone known as El Cerrejón. It is also home to the indigenous Wayuu people. The Wayuu are mostly herders but also master deep-sea divers, known for collecting pearls from the Caribbean Sea. The peninsula is populated chiefly by xeric scrubland Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominance (ecology), dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbaceous plant, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guajira (music)
Guajira is a music genre derived from the punto cubano. According to some specialists, the punto cubano was known in Spain since the 18th century, where it was called "punto de La Habana", and by the second half of the 19th century it was adopted by the incipient Spanish Flamenco style, which included it within its "palos" with the name of guajira.Manuel, Peter: The guajira between Cuba and Spain: A study in continuity and change. Latin American Music Review, volume 25, No. 2, Fall/Winter, 2004. Guajira was utilized by Spanish Zarzuela composers, such as Ruperto Chapí, who included it in his well known play "La Revoltosa", from 1897. Two years later, in 1899, the Cuban composer Jorge Anckermann inaugurated a new genre with his song "El arroyo que murmura", the first Cuban guajira. This song became a model that was adopted by many other Cuban composers at a later time, and was frequently included in the Cuban Zarzuela and vernacular theater. The Cuban guajira preserved the cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guajira (TV Series)
''Guajira'' is a Colombian telenovela produced by RCN Televisión in 1996. This is a TV adaptation of ''Torrecillas'' ("small towers"), a novel written by (mother of Carolina Sabino), who portrayed the character of "Josefina". Plot Cast *Sonya Smith as Sonia Arbeláez ''(main heroine)'' *Guy Ecker as Helmut Heidenberg ''(main hero, Sonia's husband)'' *Rafael Novoa as Felipe Uribe * as Ursula Epieyu Additional: *Luis Fernando Ardila as Engineer David (1st) *Ismael Barrios as Meyo *Manuel Busquets as Engineer David (2nd) * Carlos Humberto Camacho as Sergio *Rafael Cardoso as Alejo Pugliese * as Natalia * as Josefina * as Marina de Arbeláez (Sonia's mother) *Julio Echeverri as Robert Fajardo * as Edith *Marisela González as María * as Tulio * as Lina María de Gómez *Edgardo Román as Avelino ''"El Cacique Ipuana"'' * as Cindy Thomson de Uribe''(Felipe's wife)'' *Herbert King as Rafael Pineda * as Tom Maverick * Lizeth Mahecha * Andrés Martínez * Carminia Martínez * And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guajira (slang)
Guajira may refer to: * Guajira Peninsula, a peninsula in the northernmost part of South America shared by Colombia and Venezuela * Guajiro people (Wayuu), a South American ethnic group inhabiting northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela * guajiro bean (also known as the kapeshuna bean), a set of heirloom cultivars of the cowpea grown mainly in northeastern Colombia * La Guajira Department, a department of Colombia which includes most of the Guajira Peninsula * La Guajira Desert, a desert which covers most of the Guajira Peninsula * Guajira (music) Guajira is a music genre derived from the punto cubano. According to some specialists, the punto cubano was known in Spain since the 18th century, where it was called "punto de La Habana", and by the second half of the 19th century it was adop ..., a style of Cuban music, song or dance * ''Guajira'' (TV series), a Colombian telenovela * Guajira (slang), is also another way to denote a woman who works and lives in a rural a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
