Shame on that community. The latest was a rape whose culprits seem to be being protected by their local indigenous community. Guajira peninsula ed oct 2012 la guajira seems to becoming an increasingly less safe place for tourists to visit considering the steady stream of bad news stories i hear about tourists in the region.
Capuchin monks at the end of the 19th century in alta guajira. The untamable wayuu are getting domesticated step by step. The guajira peninsula is a perfect place to observe how religion and settlements are used to gain control over people.
And the region is home to the indigenous wayúu people. This is a desert region that is the northern tip of colombia and south america. La guajira peninsula is a desert environment located along the northern coast of colombia.
La guajira peninsula is one of the most visually stunning places in south america and is worth visiting. It is the terrority of the wayuu community one of the indigenous community still living in colombia. La guajira peninsula is a peninsula on the extreme northwestern coast of colombia between santa marta and venezuela.
Welcome to la guajira peninsula english pirates dutch smugglers and spanish pearl hunters have all tried to conquer the guajira peninsula a vast swath of barren sea and sand that is colombia s northernmost point but none were able to overcome the indigenous wayuu people who wisely traded with or waged war upon the invaders. Much of the peninsula lies in northeastern colombia. It is bounded by the caribbean sea to the north and west the gulf of venezuela to the southeast and the sierra nevada de santa marta and sierra de perijá to the south.
La guajira peninsula peninsula on the northwestern coast of south america. It is the northernmost peninsula in south america and has an area of 25 000 km 2 9 700 sq mi extending from the manaure bay colombia to the calabozo ensenada in the gulf of. Peninsula de la guajira also spelled goajira mainly in colonial period texts is a peninsula in northern colombia and northwestern venezuela in the caribbean.
The guajira peninsula gwaˈxiɾa gwaˈhiɾa spanish.
