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25-474: Cauca may refer to: Cauca Department , an administrative division of Colombia Valle del Cauca Department , an administrative division of Colombia Cauca Department (Gran Colombia) , former administrative division Cauca, an extinct Choco language Cauca River Coca, Segovia , Spain; the Latin name was Cauca Cauca guan , a bird Cauca (beetle) ,

50-516: A genus of insects in the family Cerambycidae Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cauca . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cauca&oldid=1075985979 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

75-600: A main mouth located opposite the city of Tefé. However, a secondary branch, the Paraná Copea, continues its winding course until it rejoins the Solimões River 300 km downstream. This multiple confluence (resembling a very elongated delta) complicates the measurement of the length of the Caquetá-Japurá, which varies, depending on the method used, from 2200 to 2800 km, especially because the boundaries between

100-585: Is a "white water" river, which, like all rivers descending from the Andes, carries a significant alluvial load that it partly deposits when joining the Solimões (Amazon) River on its left bank. This is why the accumulated sediments on the banks have shaped a complex mouth that stretches for several hundred kilometers. Firstly, the Japurá receives a long bifurcation from the Solimões itself and then drains into it through

125-769: Is a 2,820 kilometres (1,750 mi) long river in the Amazon basin . It rises in Colombia and flows eastward through Brazil to join the Amazon River . The river rises as the Caquetá River in the Andes in southwest Colombia . The Caquetá River rises near the sources of the Magdalena River , and augments its volume from many branches as it courses through Colombia. It flows southeast into Brazil , where it

150-491: Is a strategic national and international level, given its significance for water production, biodiversity and ecosystems, an area that represents a special conformation of the regions with more potential for development in Colombia. Cauca Department can be divided into the following hydrographic regions: Gorgonilla and Gorgona islands are located in the Pacific Ocean and belong to Cauca Department. The Cauca economy

175-577: Is based primarily on agriculture and livestock production, forestry, fishing and trade. Agriculture has been developed and modernized in the northern department, with the main crops being sugar cane, cane panela, conventional maize, rice, corn tech, banana, agave, yucca, potatoes, coconut, sorghum, cocoa, groundnut, and palm. In the Pacific region is extracted gold, silver and platinum. Other non-precious minerals that are exploited are sulfur, asbestos, limestone, talc, gypsum and coal. The manufacturing industry

200-806: Is called the Japurá. The Japurá enters the Amazon River through a network of channels. It is navigable by small boats in Brazil. West of the Rio Negro , the Solimões River (as the Amazon's upper Brazilian course is called) receives three more imposing streams from the northwest—the Japurá, the Içá (referred to as the Putumayo before it crosses over into Brazil ), and the Napo . On the border with Brazil, it meets

225-607: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cauca Department Cauca Department is divided into 42 municipalities, 99 districts, 474 police posts and numerous villages and populated places. The municipalities are grouped into 27 circles and 29 notaries: a circle-based registration in Popayán and eight sectional offices based in Bolívar , Caloto , Puerto Tejada , Santander de Quilichao , Patia , Guapi and Silvia , makes up

250-1545: Is located in Popayán, Santander de Quilichao , Puerto Tejada with factories of food, beverages, dairy products, paper, packaging, wood processing , sugar industry and paper processing for export. The main centers of commercial activity are Popayán, Santander de Quilichao, Patia , Puerto Tejada, Piendamó and Corinto . [REDACTED]   Amazonas [REDACTED]   Antioquia [REDACTED]   Arauca [REDACTED]   Atlántico [REDACTED]   Bolívar [REDACTED]   Boyacá [REDACTED]   Caldas [REDACTED]   Caquetá [REDACTED]   Casanare [REDACTED]   Cauca [REDACTED]   Cesar [REDACTED]   Chocó [REDACTED]   Córdoba [REDACTED]   Cundinamarca [REDACTED]   Guainía [REDACTED]   Guaviare [REDACTED]   Huila [REDACTED]   La Guajira [REDACTED]   Magdalena [REDACTED]   Meta [REDACTED]   Nariño [REDACTED]   N. Santander [REDACTED]   Putumayo [REDACTED]   Quindío [REDACTED]   Risaralda [REDACTED]   San Andrés [REDACTED]   Santander [REDACTED]   Sucre [REDACTED]   Tolima [REDACTED]   Valle del Cauca [REDACTED]   Vaupés [REDACTED]   Vichada Capital district: [REDACTED]   Bogotá Japur%C3%A1 River The Japurá River or Caquetá River

275-763: The Nudo de Almaguer , is a mountainous section of Andean natural region formed by the convergence of two major mountain ranges, the Central and the Eastern cordilleras. The massif extends through the departments of Cauca, Huila , and Nariño . Towards the south, the Colombian Massif is continued by the Pasto Massif and towards the north it diverges forming the Central and Eastern Andes. The Colombian Massif

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300-514: The jungle through which the eastern Caquetá originally flowed has been cleared for pasture, crops of rice , corn , manioc , and sugar cane , and in the past two decades, particularly coca crops. The 19th-century Brazilian historian and geographer José Coelho da Gama e Abreu, the Baron of Marajó, attributed 970 kilometres (600 mi) of navigable stretches to it. Jules Crevaux , who descended it, described it as full of obstacles to navigation,

325-560: The Brazilian government made a somewhat careful examination of the Brazilian part of the river, as far up as the rapid of Cupati. Several very easy and almost complete water routes exist between the Japurá and Negro across the low, flat intervening country. The Baron of Marajó wrote that there were six of them, and one which connects the upper Japurá with the Vaupés branch of the Negro; thus

350-708: The Caquetá/Japurá is a broad and voluminous river, the existence of numerous rapids throughout its course has significantly hindered navigation. Slave raids against the indigenous people of the Caqueta/Japurá River valley had persisted for at least 100 years prior to Roger Casement 's investigation of the Putumayo genocide in 1910. While citing a book published by English lieutenant Henry Lister Maw, Casement noted that these slave raids had been continued by Brazilian and Portuguese men. The territory of

375-549: The Cauca River Valley. The central mountain range crosses the department from south to north; relevant landmarks include Sotará Colcano, Petacas Nevado del Huila , and the departmental boundary. The highlands of Popayán, sandwiched between the Western and Central Cordilleras, is seen as a landmark within the plateau of the hill of La Tetilla. Among the most representative landmarks of the Colombian Massif, shared with

400-534: The Peruvian Amazon Company agents at Matanzas, La Sabana and Santa Catalina. For much of its length the river flows through the Purus várzea ecoregion. The river is home to a wide variety of fish and reptiles, including enormous catfish weighing up to 91 kg (201 lb) and measuring up to 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) in length , electric eels , piranhas , turtles , and caimans . Much of

425-574: The Peruvian Amazon Company extended between the Putumayo and Japurá Rivers during the rubber boom. Many of the indigenous nations between these rivers were enslaved by the Peruvian Amazon Company, which was originally founded by the Peruvian rubber baron Julio César Arana . Near the Caqueta River, the Andoque, Boras, Muinane, Manuya, Recigaro and other nations were forced to extract rubber at

450-477: The Peruvian Amazon Company's stations. The Andoque workforce was largely based around the Matanzas rubber station, managed by the infamous Armando Normand . The Boras people were primarily dedicated to rubber extraction around the stations of Abisinia, Santa Catalina and La Sabana correspondingly managed by Abelardo Agüero , Arístides Rodríguez and his brother Aurelio . Several writers that were contemporary to

475-467: The alluvial coastal belt or platform characterized by low, swampy, mangrove forest with many rivers estuaries subject to the ebb and flow of tides, the remainder is a plain or hills comprising the western slopes of the western cordillera. The western cordillera in Cauca extends from southwest to northeast. Among the most important landmarks are the blade of Napí, the hills of Guaduas, Munchique, and Naya, and

500-526: The basins of other tributaries and sub-tributaries of the Amazon system are unclear in this flat, flooded, and swampy area. Some tributaries of the Japurá River originate very close to the Solimões River (Auati Paraná River), and some tributaries of the Negro River arise near the Japurá (Uneiuxi, Cuiuni, and Unini rivers), with connections and bifurcations between them during flood seasons. Although

525-490: The current very strong and the stream frequently interrupted by rapids and cataracts. It was initially supposed to have eight mouths, but colonial administrator Francisco Xavier Ribeiro Sampaio, in the historic report of his voyage of 1774, determined that there was but one real mouth, and that the supposed others are all furos or canos , as the diverting secondary channels of the Amazonian rivers are known. In 1864–1868,

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550-665: The department of Huila , are the Páramo del Buey, the volcanoes of Cutanga and Puracé, the peak of Paletará, and the Sierra Nevada of Coconucos. Patia Valley, where the Patia River runs north–south and framed by the Central and Western mountain ranges, extends into Nariño Department . The Amazonian salient corresponds to the so-called Bota Caucana, through which flows the Japurá River . The Colombian Massif, also called

575-478: The judicial district of Popayán. This district possesses 8 judicial circuit seats in Popayán, Bolívar, Caloto, Guapi, Patia, Puerto Tejada, Santander de Quilichao and Silvia. The department makes up the constituency of Cauca. The relief of the territory of the department of Cauca belongs to the Andean system at the macro level seven distinguishing morphological units: The Pacific Plate comprises two sectors, firstly

600-542: The long Apaporis River (which is 1,370 km long when combined with one of its sources, the Tunia River ), near the town of La Pedrera. It then enters Brazilian territory, in the Amazon, where it is known as the Japurá River. In its lower course, it is joined by the Auati Paraná and Mirim Pirajuana rivers (the latter is sometimes considered a secondary branch, or a dead or backwater of the river). The Caquetá-Japurá

625-490: The rubber boom, including Roger Casement, noted that the Boras and Andoques nations were more resistant to enslavement and attempts by rubber tappers to conquer them. Joseph R. Woodroffe believed that their resistance resulted in those two indigenous nations suffering the most under the Peruvian Amazon Company's management and the near extinction of those two groups by 1910. Hundreds of indigenous people died while subjected to

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