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Department of Colombia
Photo: LUIS ANGEL CAMARGO from Bogotá, Colombia, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
La Guajira occupies most of the Guajira Peninsula in the Costa Norte region of Colombia, on the Caribbean Sea, bordering Venezuela, at the northernmost tip of South America.
The first big city after reaching Colombia from Venezuela is Riohacha.
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the capital, is a less-touristed beach town on the Caribbean coast
home to one of the largest mosques in all of Latin America that was built to accommodate the city's notable Arab and Muslim population, mostly composed of Lebanese immigrants
has an exotic jungle landscape and vast biodiversity, and the beaches are white and uninhabited
a beautiful well-known beach in the desert of the Peninsula de la Guajira. Trips could be booked from Santa Marta or Riohacha.
the most northern point of Colombia and South America. Beautiful dunes, desert, exotic beaches and sacred indigenous cultures.
the northernmost park on the Colombian mainland, coastal beaches and a dry arid climate due to the La Guajira desert.
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