Distracción, La Guajira Explained

Settlement Type:town
Official Name:Distracción
Nickname:The Star of La Guajira
Mapsize:250px
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Type2:Department
Subdivision Name:Colombia
Subdivision Name1:Caribbean
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Pedro Javier Guerra Chinchia (L)[1]
Established Title:Foundation
Established Date:1845 by Antonio María Vidal
Area Total Km2:220
Population As Of:Census 2018[2]
Population Total:11934
Population Density Km2:auto
Utc Offset:-5
Elevation M:65
Blank Name:Climate

Distracción (pronounced as /es/) is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of La Guajira. Founded in 1845 by a man from neighboring Barrancas named Antonio María Vidal on the right margin of the Ranchería River.[3]

The town celebrates the Festival de los Laureles (Spanish for Festival of the Laurels). The town's economy relies mostly in agriculture, farming and the rudimentary exploitation of a limestone mine.[3]

Geography

The municipality of Distracción is located in the Guajira Peninsula, on the Valley of Upar formed by the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá. It has a total area of 220 km² bordering to the north with the municipality of Riohacha; to the east with the municipality of Fonseca; to the south with the municipalities of San Juan del Cesar and Fonseca and to the west with the municipality of San Juan del Cesar.[4]

Politics

Defense

The Colombian National Army has two major units in the department part of the 1st Division one of these is the 2nd Mechanized Cavalry Battalion also known as the Batallon Rondon.[5]

External links

10.9°N -125°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.registraduria.gov.co/reselec2007_esc/1028/x.html Colombian Registry of the Civil State: 2007 election results
  2. Web site: Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018. DANE. es . 26 April 2020.
  3. http://www.laguajira.gov.co/municipios/distraccion.htm Government of La Guajira: Distraccion
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20071013060901/http://distraccion-laguajira.gov.co/nuestromunicipio.shtml?apc=m-I1--&m=f&s=m Distraccion: Geography
  5. http://www.primeradivision.mil.co/?idcategoria=89499 1st Division of the Colombian National Army: Second Brigade and Tenth Brigade