Puerto Carreño
Puerto Carreño is the depairtmental caipital, an a municipality, o the depairtment o Vichada in the llanos o Colombie.
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 Location o the toun an municipality o Puerto Carreño in the Depairtment o Vichada. | |
| Coordinates: 6°11′N 67°28′W / 6.183°N 67.467°W | |
| Kintra | Colombie |
| Region | Orinoquía |
| Depairtment | Vichada |
| Foondation | 1913 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Luis Eduardo Medina Amaya |
| Elevation | 51 m (167 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 |
| Website | puertocarreno-vichada.gov.co |
History
eeditIn 1913 the Colombie govrenment creatit the province (comisaria) o Vichada an it wis decidit that its caipital shoud be at the convergence o the Orinoco an Meta rivers whaur thare wis a sma veelage kent locally as El Picacho.[1] In 1934 the toun wis renamit efter Pedro Maria Carreño, the Colombie Meenister o External Relations frae 1912 tae 1913.[2] The "municipio" (similar tae coonty in the U.S.) wis creatit in 1974.[1][3] On 5 Julie 1991, Vichada's status wis updatit tae "departamento" unner the Colombie Constitution an Puerto Carreño wis ratifee'd as its caipital.
The DANE (Colombie govrenment's bureau for statistics) projectit Puerto Carreño's municipal population tae be aroond 10,034 for 2005, based on the 1993 Census. Thare are some Indigenous tribes athin Puerto Carreño's admeenistrative zone as well.
Geografie
eeditThe municipality o Puerto Carreño is locatit on the extreme northeastren pairt o the Depairtment o Vichada borderin tae the north an east wi Venezuela uisin the Meta an Orinoco rivers]] as borders. Tae the sooth Puerto Carreño limits wi the municipality o Cumaribo an tae the wast wi the municipality o La Primavera.[4]
The aurie o the municipality is uniformly flat, awtho thare is a vera slicht rise at the toun which gave it its oreeginal name. The climate is hot an dry, wi a hivy rain saison frae Aprile throu October averagin a temperatur o 28 °C.[4]
The aurie o the municipality is athin the Llanos plains which covers auries in Colombie an Venezuela. Geologically the municipality o Puerto Carreño lees on the Guiana Shield maistly made up bi cenozoic an precambric formations, wi some law altitude muntains such as the Munts o Casuarito an the Hormiga an Guaripa muntains.[4]
Economy
eeditEconomic activity is based on agricultural an ranchin activities, fishin, an minin. Thare is some internaitional tradin activity wi Venezuelan touns athort the border, athort the Orinoco River. Main products in the region are rice, yuca an plantain. Artisan fishing is practicit alang ranchin. Thare are gowd an siller mines, exploitit in a rudimentar wey. The municipality aften trade commercially wi neebourin toun o Puerto Páez in Venezuela.[5]
References
eedit- ↑ a b ""Historia" Alcaldia Puerto Carreño". Archived frae the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 10 Mairch 2013.
- ↑ "Relación cronológica de Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores Colombia" Ministerios de Relaciones Exteriores, Colombia Archived 2007-06-06 at the Wayback Machine ("Chronological list of the Ministers of External Relations, Colombia" Ministry of External Relations, Colombia)
- ↑ Decree #1594 of 5 August 1974
- ↑ a b c ["[https://web.archive.org/web/20041205023040/http://www.alcaldiapuertocarreno.gov.co/ Archived] 2004-12-05 at the [[Wayback Machine]][[Category:Webarchive template wayback airtins]] (in Spaingie)[[Category:Airticles wi Spaingie-leid freemit airtins]] Puerto Carreño: Geography". Archived frae the original on 5 December 2004. Retrieved 10 Mairch 2013. freemit airtin in
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