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The Amazonian Scientific Research Institute SINCHI (Spanish: Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI) is a non-profit research institute of the Government of Colombia charged with carrying out scientific investigations on matters relating to the Amazon Rainforest, the Amazon River and the Amazon Region of Colombia for its better understanding and protection.
Amazonas (Spanish pronunciation:) is a department of Southern Colombia. It is the largest department in area while having the third smallest population among the departments. Its capital is Leticia and its name comes from the Amazon River, which drains the department. It is made up entirely of Amazon Rainforest territory.
Postal codes in Colombia are 6 digit numeric. The first group of two digits are the numbers used by DANE to encode the departments. The second group of two digits in the range of 00 to 89 encode postal zones, where 00 is used for the department capital. In the range of 90 - 99 it has another meaning. [clarification needed]
The Amazon Region of Colombia is part of the Amazon rainforest. Amazonía region in southern Colombia comprises the departments of Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo and Vaupés, and covers an area of 483,000 km 2, 35% of Colombia's total territory.
Puerto Nariño is the second municipality of the Amazonas department of Colombia, located on the shore of the Amazon River. Puerto Nariño coves an area of 1,876 km 2 (724 sq mi). It has about 6,000 residents, most of them are indigenous (from the Ticuna tribe ) and its specificity is that it is entirely pedestrian, no car or motorcycle being ...
The University of the Amazon (Spanish: Universidad de la Amazonia), also called Uniamazonía, is a national public university in Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia. The university is established by Act 60 of 1982 to contribute to the development of the Amazon region .
Map of the Amazon River drainage basin with the Amazon River highlighted The Amazon River drainage basin; with the Casiquiare River, a distributary of the Orinoco River flowing southward into the Negro River, in Venezuela, South America. As such, it forms a unique natural canal between the Orinoco and Amazon river systems.
Mide 37 cm de largo por 15 cm de alto. La última es una estrella de cinco puntas que se encuentra en la franja amarilla justo debajo de la del jaguar, y representa a la ciudad de Leticia. Mide 20 cm de distancia entre vértice y vértice de cada una de las puntas. Date: 4 June 2009: Source: Own work: Author: Milenioscuro: Used colors