La Region Orinoquia

ORINOQUÍA NATURAL REGION, COLOMBIA

The Orinoquía Region is one of the five natural regions of Colombia that belongs to the Orinoco River watershed. It is also known colloquially as the Eastern Plains from the Spanish Llanos Orientales. The region covers most of the area of the departments of Meta, Arauca, Casanare and Vichada.

LOCATION / BORDERS

The Orinoco region, situated in the eastern part of the country. It is located between the boundaries of the Eastern Cordillera and the banks of the Orinoco, Guaviare and Arauca rivers. The river crosses the goal.

It consists of the departments of Meta, Vichada, Casanare and Arauca.

POPULATION

• Total 1,227,380 hab.

• Density 4.3 inhabitants / km ²

RELIEF

The Serrania de la Macarena

A mountainous area called the Sierra de la Macarena, beautiful region that is known as "the biological laboratory of nature" is located. They grow rare plants and nesting birds with beautiful plumage.

The government has also declared a nature reserve and has banned it colonized. However, unscrupulous politicians have supported many people to colonize the highlands. Thus, they won some votes, and mankind will lose thousands of acres with plant and animal species for its variety and rarity are of great scientific interest.

DEPARTMENTS AND CAPITAL

The departments that have territory in the Colombian Llanos are:

• Arauca, Arauca equity.

• Casanare's capital Yopal.

• Meta capital Villavicencio.

• Vichada capital Puerto Carreño.

CITIES

Major cities in the Eastern Plains are in order:

• Villavicencio, capital of Meta department

• Yopal, capital of Casanare;

• Arauca, Arauca capital

• Granada, Meta

• Tame, Arauca

• Aguazul and Orocué, Casanare

• Puerto Carreño, Vichada capital

• Acacias, Meta.

• Puerto López, Meta Township

CULTURE

The Colombian Llanos is the dominant subculture in the region and well distinguishable characteristics. The Lone Worker is dedicated to raising livestock (the quintessential cowboy Colombia) given the vastness of the plains that allow raising cattle.

Due to environmental circumstances, forms of work (dairy, horseback riding), their music, their legends, their housing, liquiliqui Ranger uses a cool costume, light and simple used as male attire dancing Joropo the musical air planes and traditional dance. The woman's dress consists of a full skirt that falls to ankle homes in which seven yards of fabric or red light background with flowers are spent on each floor seam takes ojalón (tape). Petticoat, wide combination is used. The three-quarter sleeve blouse, turtleneck, adorned with ribbons and breasted back in the same color of the skirt, integral (attached skirt and blouse), quoted sole and ribbon bows adorning his head. Today, used the same skirt but takes the edge and goes wide lace mid-calf; white blouse with neckline, short sleeve and washer. The plains woman prefers to wear her hair down with a flower of cayenne.

The man also wore white pants rolled up to mid-calf (crossing the river) and not get wet, white or red collarless shirt. Also black pants and white shirt. Sometimes wore full dresses khaki shirt down over loose pants. He wore wide-brimmed hat preferring peloeguama so heavy to ensure that the race horse or stomping will not fall; it is black or red howler.

FOOD AND GASTRONOMY

One of the most typical dishes of this region is the veal plains or castor, which is prepared by roasting cuts of beef in Chuzos (Varas wood) buried in a circle around a bonfire. Other special dishes are hallaca , tamal stuffed with meat and vegetables ; stick to the bottom , a preparation of meat veguero bean ; burrowing rice containing oxtail and vegetables; rabbit in wine; flag Creole dish containing beef, beans ( black beans ) , white rice , egg and sliced bananas. A typical class is cachapa arepa (corn or sweet jojoto arepa with cheese). Also soups like boiled guamarra (taparuca hen, hen variety plains) and hash with corned beef ( salted and dried in the sun ) . There are typical as chicha guarroz rice and beverages. A typical fish is the coporo prepared with lard. Cassava is another usual food prepared from cassava pellets (typically using a sebucán) and roast in a pot or griddle.

TYPICAL MUSIC AND DANCE

In traditional Colombian music the plains music is really wealth of forms present.

The word JOROPO , in the context of not only plain wing music and dance refers but is also the name of the meetings where they sing and dance , is the plains Joropo party. In Joropo clearly perceived the Spanish ancestry ; retains particularly singing, choreography, the arabesques of the voice and the Andalusian Flamenco footwork . Were Jesuit missionaries who brought the music of his homeland to this region. In addition to interpreting music schools created for the encomendaderos they teach . Thus, Indians and mestizos learned to play instruments and music theory Canar . The Joropo interpreted by six strokes picture six run or bird. Be instrumental or vocal, when the tune is slower basis , then it is called PASSAGE , and if the base

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