Putumayo Department
Department of Putumayo
Departamento del Putumayo | |
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UTC-05 | |
ISO 3166 code | CO-PUT |
Municipalities | 13 |
HDI (2019) | 0.717[5] high · 26th of 33 |
Website | www.putumayo.gov.co |
Putumayo (Spanish pronunciation: [putuˈmaʝo]) is a department of Southern Colombia. It is in the south-west of the country, bordering Ecuador and Peru. Its capital is Mocoa.
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".
History
Year | Pop. | ±% |
---|---|---|
1973 | 67,336 | — |
1985 | 174,129 | +158.6% |
1993 | 264,291 | +51.8% |
2005 | 310,132 | +17.3% |
2018 | 348,182 | +12.3% |
Source:[6] |
Originally, the southwestern area of the department belonged to the
Inca defeat in 1533
, the region was invaded by the Spanish in 1542, and from 1547 was administered by Catholic missions.
The current territory of Putumayo was linked to Popayan during the Spanish Colonial Period and in the first Republican decades belonged to the "Azuay Department", which included territories in Ecuador and Perú. Later a long process of territorial redistributions began:
- 1831: Popayán Province.
- 1857: Estado Federal del Cauca.
- 1886: Cauca Department.
- 1905: Intendencia del Putumayo .
- 1909: Intendencia del Caquetá .
- 1912: Comisaría Especial del Putumayo.
- 1953: Department of Nariño.
- 1957: Comisaría Especial del Putumayo.
- 1968: Intendencia Especial del Putumayo.
- 1991: Putumayo Department.
Municipalities
Municipalities | Map |
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See also
- Santuario Orito Indí-Andé Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
- Putumayo Genocide
References
- ^ "Nuestro departamento: Información general". Gobernación del Putumayo.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-7813-6.
- ^ "DANE". Archived from the original on 13 November 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- ^ "Producto Interno Bruto por departamento", www.dane.gov.co
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Reloj de Población". DANE. Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísitica. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2017.