Casanare ( Spanish pronunciation: [kasaˈnaɾe] , Spanish : Departamento de Casanare ) is a department located in the central eastern of Colombia . It is famous for its oil and natural gas production as well as its livestock and extensive plains. It is also the tenth largest department with an area of 44,490 km , similar to that of Denmark , but also the seventh least densely populated.
8-862: Casanare may refer to: Casanare Department , an administrative division in Colombia Casanare Province , a province of the Viceroyalty of New Granada Casanare River , a tributary of the Meta River in Colombia Casanare, Colombia , a settlement in Colombia on the Casanare River [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
16-1753: Is Yopal , which is also the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yopal . It contains oil fields and an 800 km pipeline leading to the coastal port of Coveñas owned by BP . The Upía River (Río Upía) is in Casanare. Casanare, Ariporo, Guachiría, Guanapalo, Pauto, Tocaría, Cravo Sur, Cusiana, Túa y Upía. A former subregion of Boyacá, Casanare became separate department in 1973. [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 This Department of Casanare location article
24-406: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Huila Department Huila ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈwila] ) is one of the departments of Colombia . It is located in the southwest of the country, and its capital is Neiva . Huila department had a population of 1,122,622 inhabitants in 2020, of which 679,667 (60.54%) live in urban areas and 442,955 (39.46%) in the rest of
32-520: Is located on the coffee belt, standing out Pitalito and La Plata ; the North Subregion is undergoing a decrease in its rural population, mainly attributable to alterations of agricultural and oil activities on the landscape. The average population density in the department is 59.88 inhabitants / km , with the highest densities in Neiva (223.72), Pitalito (200.1) and Garzón (162.45), and with
40-518: The Huilense territory. This amounts to 2.5% of the total Colombian population. The majority of it is settled in the Magdalena valley , the main urban centers being Neiva and Garzón , due to the possibilities offered by commercial-type agricultural economy, oil production, access to basic public services and roads connected to the central road axis along the Magdalena . The rest of the population
48-851: The country. According to the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC), Huila's surface area is 19,890 km², which is about 1.74% of the total surface area of Colombia. The south of the department is located in the Colombian Massif . The Cordillera Oriental branches off from the Colombia Massif here. This is caused by the rise of the Magdalena River (also called Yuma River), Colombia's longest river and its largest basin. The Magdalena River has two large dams: Betania and El Quimbo . Colombia's third highest peak, Nevado del Huila volcano,
56-401: The lowest in the municipalities of Colombia and Villavieja (7.83 and 10.91 respectively). According to DANE , the racial composition of Huila is as follows: 98.43% recognize themselves as Whites and Mestizos , while only 1.57% as an ethnic population ( Amerindians and Afro / Mulattos ). This makes it one of departments with the highest percentage of non-ethnic affiliated population in
64-470: The same name. 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=Casanare&oldid=1196489890 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Casanare Department Its capital
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