Riohacha Municipality () is located on the Caribbean region of Colombia of

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 depart ...

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. It extends over 3,120 km² and has an urban part divided into 10 Communes, 14

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s and 8 Resguardos Indígenas. 7 of the indigenous regions belong to the

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and one in the

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region shared by the Kogi, the Wiwa, and the Ijka, a subtribe of the Arhuaco people. Riohacha is 1,121 km north of Bogotá. The municipality is located in the southwestern part of La Guajira Department and is bordered by the municipality of Dibulla to the west, the

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to the northwest, the municipality of Manaure to the north, the Municipalities of

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and

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to the east, the municipalities of Hatonuevo, Barrancas, Distracción, Fonseca to the southeast and

San Juan del Cesar San Juan del Cesar is a municipality and town located in the La Guajira Department, Colombia. Etymology San Juan Bautista del Cesar name in and ''Chet-tzar'' or ''Sasare'' indigenous language for calm water, the name of the Cesar River. History ...

to the south.

Corregimientos

The municipality consists of an urban part and 14 Corregimientos: Camarones, Tigreras, Choles, Matitas, Arroyo Arena,

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, Barbacoas, Tomarrazón, Juan y Medio,

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, Cerrillo, Cotopríx,

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and Villa Martin.

Comunas

The city is divided into 10 comunas with the following

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s: #Comuna Centro Histórico: Centro, Barrio Arriba, Barrio Abajo, Urbanización El Faro. #Comuna Nuevo Centro: San Martín de Porres, Los Remedios, El Acueducto, El Libertador, Urbanización El Tatual. #Comuna Coquivacoa: Coquivacoa, Padilla, José Antonio Galán, Urbanización Sol Tropical, Urbanización Terrazas de Coquivacoa, Paraíso, Guapuna, Las Mercedes, Luis Antonio Robles, Coquivacoa. #Comuna Cooperativo: 12 de octubre, Urbanización Marbella, San Tropel, Nuevo Horizonte, Urbanización Portal de Comfamiliar, Cooperativo Nuevo Faro, La Ñapa, Edinson Deluque Pinto, Urbanización Manantial, Urbanización Majayura I y II, Jorge Pérez. #Comuna Aeropuerto Almirante Padilla: Cactus I Y II, Che Guevara, Las Tunas, Caribe, San Martín de Loba, Matajuna, Aeropuerto, La Paz, Nazareth. #Comuna Nuestra Señora De Los Remedios: Obrero, 20 de julio, San Francisco, Rojas Pinilla, La Loma, Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, José Arnoldo Marín, Calancala, Las Villas, Entre Ríos, Los Medanos, El Progreso, Luis Eduardo Cuellar, Villa Tatiana, Kepiagua. #Comuna Boca Grande: La Cosecha, Boca Grande, Los Nogales, San Judas, El Comunitario, Los Olivos, Divino Niño, La Esperanza, 15 de mayo, Comfamiliar 2000, Simón Bolívar, Eurare, Buganvilla. #Comuna Ecológica Laguna Salada y El Patrón: Camilo Torres, Maria Eugenia Rojas, Ranchería, Villa Laura, Urbanización Villa Armando, Urbanización Bella Vista, Urbanización Solmar, Buenos Aires, Los Cerezos, 7 de agosto, Urbanización Pareigua, Claudia Catalina, Pilar Del Río, Urbanización Wuetapia. #Comuna Eco – Turística Río Ranchería: Urbanización Villa Comfamiliar, Urbanización Villa Del Mar, Urbanización Villa Tatiana, Villa Fátima. #Comuna El Dividivi: Ciudadela El Dividivi, Los Almendros, Los Loteros, Villa Sharin, Urbanización La Floresta, Hugo Zúñiga, Urbanización San Judas Tadeo, Urbanización San Isidro, Villa Yolima, Villa Jardín, 31 de octubre, Urbanización la Mano de Dios, Las Mercedes, Nuevo Milenio, Urbanización Villa Aurora, Urbanización Taguaira, La Lucha, La Luchita.

References

{{coord missing, Colombia Municipalities of La Guajira Department

Corregimientos

Comunas

See also

References