The Guavio Province () is one of the 15 provinces in the

Cundinamarca department Department of Cundinamarca (, ) is one of the departments of Colombia. Its area covers (not including the Capital District) and it has a population of 2,919,060 as of 2018. It was created on August 5, 1886, under the constitutional terms pre ...

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

. Guavio borders the

Capital District A capital district, capital region, or capital territory is normally a specially designated administrative division where a country's seat of government is located. As such, in a federal model of government, no state or territory has any politic ...

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...

and the

Central Savanna Province Central Savanna Province () is one of the fifteen provinces of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca, in Colombia. It is located in the central area of the department, and has 11 Municipalities of Colombia, municipalities. The province capital is ...

to the west, to the north the

Almeidas Province Almeidas Province (, ) is one of the 15 provinces in the Cundinamarca department, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia. Almeidas borders to the east with the Boyacá Department to the north with the Ubaté Province, to the west with the Central Savann ...

, to the east the

Boyacá Department Boyacá () is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia". Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the mount ...

and Medina Province and to the south the

Meta Department Meta () is a department of Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the Meta River, is covered by a grassland plain known ...

and the Eastern Province. The

Alberto Lleras Dam The Alberto Lleras Dam, also known as the Guavio Dam, is a rock-fill embankment dam on the Guavio River near Guavio, Colombia. The dam was built in 1989 with a height of . The dam has an installed hydroelectric generation capacity of , a crest le ...

is also located in this area. The eastern municipalities Gachalá and Ubalá are rich in

emeralds Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.Hurlbut, Cornelius S. Jr., and Kammerling, Robert C. (1991). ''Gemology'', John Wiley & Sons, New York, ...

Subdivision

Guavio Province is subdivided into 8

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

:Orden en las provincias de Cundinamarca
- El Tiempo

References

External links

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Guavio Province in Cundinamarca
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Description Guavio Province
- Universidad de los Andes Provinces of Cundinamarca Department {{Cundinamarca-geo-stub