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Punta Gallinas Lighthouse Overview map Punta Gallinas at top of satellite picture. Punta Gallinas (Cape Gallinas, "Cape Hens") is a headland in northern Colombia.Located in Uribia Municipality, La Guajira Department, it is the northernmost point on the mainland of South America, and one of the extreme points of South America.
An aerial view of the Guajira Peninsula (top center), including parts of Colombia and Venezuela west of the Gulf of Venezuela and south of the Caribbean Sea. The Guajira Peninsula [ɡwaˈxiɾa] (Spanish: Península de La Guajira, also spelled Goajira, mainly in colonial period texts, Wayuu: Woumainpa’a) is a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean.
The extreme points of South America are the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent.The continent's southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn, but Águila Islet of the Diego Ramírez Islands lies further south.
While the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán experiences a large number of tropical storms and hurricanes, the storm tracks and therefore landfalls of these are divergent to both the north (Cancun) and the south (south of Tulum and down to Belize) striking generally outside the Riviera Maya. Groundwater and therefore cenote water temperatures are ...
The Caribbean region is mostly lowland plains extending from the northern reaches of the Colombian Andes to the Caribbean Sea that are characterized by a variety of ecosystems including: humid forests, dry forests, savannas, wetlands and desert.
Puerto Peñasco (O'odham: Geʼe Ṣuidagĭ [2]) is a small city located in Puerto Peñasco Municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora, 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the border with the U.S. state of Arizona.
The Wayuu are mostly herders but also master deep-sea divers, known for collecting pearls from the Caribbean Sea. [1] The peninsula is populated chiefly by xeric scrubland, which is home to a large variety of flora and fauna. The National Natural Park of Macuira, established in 1977, is a tropical oasis located in the La Guajira Desert. The ...
Saona has pre-Columbian pictographs and petroglyphs found at Cueva de Cotubanamá. [4] The island was known as "Adamanay" by the indigenous Taino. [5] The island was baptized "Saona" by Christopher Columbus, who landed on it in May 1494 [6] during his second voyage to the Americas.