Meta Department
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Department of Meta
Departamento del Meta | |
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| ISO 3166 code | CO-MET |
| Provinces | 4 |
| Municipalities | 29 |
| HDI (2019) | 0.778[3] high · 6th of 33 |
| Website | www.meta.gov.co |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1973 | 242,664 | — |
| 1985 | 474,046 | +95.4% |
| 1993 | 618,427 | +30.5% |
| 2005 | 783,168 | +26.6% |
| 2018 | 1,039,722 | +32.8% |
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Meta (Spanish pronunciation: Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the Meta River, is covered by a grassland plain known as the Llanos. Its capital is Villavicencio. The department has a monument placed in the very geographic centre of Colombia, at a place known as Alto de Menegua, a few kilometers from Puerto López.
Achagua, which is similar to Piapoco, is an Indigenous language
spoken by a minority in the department.
Municipalities
See also
References
- ^ "DANE". Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ^ "Producto Interno Bruto por departamento", www.dane.gov.co
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^ "Reloj de Población". DANE. Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísitica. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
External links
- Folklore llanero
- Government Meta
- Territorial-Environmental Information System of Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC website
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