Amazon

Amazon region in southern Colombia comprises the departments of Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo and Vaupés, and covers an area of 483,000 km², 35% of Colombia’s total territory. The region is mostly covered by tropical rainforest, or jungle, which is a part of the greater Amazon rainforest.

The tropical rainforest classified more specifically as a tropical moist broadleaf forest.

Ecosystems

Rainforest, Wetlands.

Climate

Tropical.

Altitude

0 – 200 MSL

Experience

Culture, gastronomy, Indigenous communities, Festivals

Representative Birds

Routes

Caquetá/Putumayo

Is a departments of Southern Colombia. It is in the south-west of the country, bordering Ecuador and Peru.

The word putumayo comes from the Quechua languages. The verb p’utuy means «to spring forth» or «to burst out», and mayu means river. Thus it means «gushing river».

Vaupés

The department’s main economic activities feature logging and fishing, with much exportation to neighboring Brazil.

The vast majority of the population consists of indigenous inhabitants. It is the least populated department in the country.

Guainía

Guainía ; Yuri language: «Land of many waters»

The population is mainly composed of Amerindians, and the largest ethnic groups are the Puinaves (from the makú-puinave family) and the curripacos (from the Arawak family).

Amazonas

It is the largest department in area while also having the 3rd smallest population. Its capital is Leticia and its name comes from the Amazon River, which drains the department, the following ethnic groups are found in the department: Bora, Cocama, Macuna, Mirana, Okaina, Ticunas, Tucano, Uitoto, Yagua, and Yucuna, among others. These groups are more than 5,000 years old.

Experiences

Ecolodges

visit the best ecolodges of the amazon region.

Maloca

Visit a maloca, is an ancestral long house used by indigenous people of the Amazon, to share their cosmovision: is the collection of worldviews shared by the Indigenous pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica.

Gastronomy

The typical food of the region with the best preparations.

Landscapes

Amazonas River

Cerros de Mavecure

Festivals

February

Carnival of Forgiveness

One especially important event is the Carnival of the Return of the First People, which is both a fun event and key celebration of local mythology.

This carnival, also known as Bëtscnate, in the Katmëntsá people, and Kalusturinda, in the Inga community, unites these two peoples around forgiveness and the search for peace, patience, respect and love.

Sibundoy/Putumayo

November

The Golden Pirarucú

«The Golden Pirarucú». We will travel through the Amazonian trapeze, through Leticia and Puerto Nariño to experience the music, gastronomy and handicrafts of a place that has no borders and that gathers the indigenous roots of three countries: Peru, Brazil and Colombia. In addition to experiencing a festival that safeguards the culture of the native peoples, we will also give prominence to the fauna: pink dolphins, black and painted jaguars, parrots and fish emblematic of the great Amazon River.

Leticia/Amazonas