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La Guajira Department, a department of Colombia which includes most of the Guajira Peninsula; La Guajira Desert, a desert which covers most of the Guajira Peninsula; Guajira (music), a style of Cuban music, song or dance; Guajira, a Colombian telenovela; Guajira (slang), is also another way to denote a woman who works and lives in a rural area.
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.
In 1771, a Spanish force sent from Cartagena to squash Indigenous insurgency in the Guajira Peninsula, and what they found was a fearsome army with British guns. On top of having connections with both British and Dutch merchants, Wayuu people would trade pearls and brazilwood to these merchants in return for contraband slaves.
Guajira-son: Composer(s) Joseíto Fernández " Guantanamera" (pronounced [ɡwantanaˈmeɾa]; Spanish for 'The woman from Guantánamo') [1] is a Cuban patriotic song ...
Guajira [ɡwaˈxi.ɾa] is a music genre derived from the punto cubano.According to some specialists, [1] the punto cubano was known in Spain since the 18th century, where it was called "punto de La Habana", and by the second half of the 19th century it was adopted by the incipient Spanish Flamenco style, which included it within its "palos" with the name of guajira. [2]
La Guajira (Spanish pronunciation: [la ɣwaˈxiɾa] [4]) 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 term Guajira is now used mostly to describe a slow dance music in 4 4 time, a fusion of the Guajira and the Son (called Guajira-Son). Singer and guitarist Guillermo Portabales was the most outstanding representative of this genre.
Decree 2164 of 1995 interprets Law 160 of 1994, providing, among other things, a legal definition of indigenous territories. [4] Indigenous territories in Colombia are mostly in the departments of Amazonas, Cauca, La Guajira, Guaviare, and Vaupés. [1]