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Caquetá Department

Coordinates: 1°37′N 75°36′W / 1.617°N 75.600°W / 1.617; -75.600
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Department of Caquetá
Departamento del Caquetá
Department
Flag of Department of Caquetá
Flag
Coat of arms of Department of Caquetá
Coat of arms
Nickname: 
The Golden Gate to the Amazon
Motto(s): 
All, For a Better Caqueta
(Spanish: Todos por un Caquetá mejor)
Caquetá shown in red
Caquetá shown in red
Topography of the department
Topography of the department
Coordinates: 1°37′N 75°36′W / 1.617°N 75.600°W / 1.617; -75.600
Country Colombia
RegionAmazon natural region
Department1981
Intendancy1905
CapitalFlorencia
Government
 • GovernorLuis Francisco Ruiz Aguilar (since 2024)
Area
 • Total
88,965 km2 (34,350 sq mi)
 • Rank3rd
Population
 (2018)[1]
 • Total
401,849
 • Rank24th
 • Density4.5/km2 (12/sq mi)
DemonymCaqueteñan
GDP
[2]
 • TotalCOP 5,461 billion
(US$ 1.3 billion)
Time zoneUTC-05
ISO 3166 codeCO-CAQ
Municipalities15
HDI (2019)0.717[3]
high · 26th of 33
Websitecaqueta.gov.co

Caquetá Department (Spanish pronunciation: [kakeˈta]) is a department of Colombia. Its capital is the city of Florencia.[4]

History

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Caquetá was established as a department in 1981.[5]:3 Caquetá Department was a hot spot in the Colombian conflict, with an economy dependent on the coca trade.[6]

Geography and nature

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Located in the Amazon natural region,[7] Caquetá borders the departments of Cauca and Huila to the west, the department of Meta to the north, the department of Guaviare to the northeast, the department of Vaupés to the east, and the departments of Amazonas and Putumayo to the south covering a total area of 88,965 square kilometres (34,350 sq mi), the third largest in the country.[4]

The department has an equatorial superhumid (Afi) Köppen climate classification. A majority of the land is used for cattle farming.[8]:2

The department has over 120 species of birds.[9]

Municipalities

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There are 16 municipalities in Caquetá Department.[10]

  1. Albania
  2. Belén de Andaquies
  3. Cartagena del Chairá
  4. Curillo
  5. El Doncello
  6. El Paujil
  7. Florencia
  8. La Montañita
  9. Milán
  10. Morelia
  11. Puerto Rico
  12. San José del Fragua
  13. San Vicente del Caguán
  14. Solano
  15. Solita
  16. Valparaíso

Demographics

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Historical population
YearPop.±%
1973 180,297—    
1985 264,507+46.7%
1993 367,898+39.1%
2005 420,337+14.3%
2018 401,849−4.4%
Source:[11]

The total population of Caquetá department in the 2018 census was 401,849 people with a density of 4.46 people per square kilometer.[1] In 2021, Caquetá's poverty rate was 44.8% according to the National Administrative Department of Statistics.[12]

Today, the Witoto, Coreguaje, Inga, Emberá, Pijao, Paez, and Guambiano peoples are among the indigenous communities which inhabit the department.[13]

Government

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Governors of Caquetá Department
Name Party Term Election/Appointee Ref.
Víctor Isidro Ramírez MIRA 2012–2014 elected [14]
Julieta Gómez Bedoya[a] Liberal 2014 Juan Manuel Santos [15]
Martha Liliana Agudelo Valencia[b] MIRA 2014–2016 Juan Manuel Santos [16]
Alvaro Pacheco Alvarez Liberal 2016–2019 elected [17]
Fabio Augusto Parra Beltrán[c] 2019 Iván Duque [18]
Martha Rocío Ruiz Arenas[d] 2019–2020 Iván Duque [19]
Arnulfo Gasca Trujillo Conservative 2020–2024 elected [17]
Luis Francisco Ruiz Aguilar Coalition (CR, Ind) 2024–2027 elected [20]

Symbols

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The flag of Caquetá has four horizontal green stripes and 16 yellow stars.[21]

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  • Church in El Doncello
    Church in El Doncello
  • Indigenous man in Caquetá
    Indigenous man in Caquetá
  • Edificio Curiplaya, a national monument located in Florencia
    Edificio Curiplaya, a national monument located in Florencia
  • South-central Florencia
    South-central Florencia
  • Cascada de Anayasita, a waterfall in El Doncello
    Cascada de Anayasita, a waterfall in El Doncello

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Viviendas, Hogares y Personas (VIHOPE)". DANE. Retrieved 23 July 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Producto Interno Bruto por departamento", www.dane.gov.co
  3. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  4. ^ a b Ospino, Luis (2023-10-04). "Exploring the Five Largest Departments of Colombia". Colombia One: News from Colombia and the World. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  5. ^ Bustos, Sebastián; Cheston, Timothy; Rao, Nidhi (February 2023), "The Missing Economic Diversity of the Colombian Amazon: An Economic Complexity Approach for Caquetá, Guaviare, and Putumayo", CID Research Fellows and Graduate Student Working Paper, 2023, no. 156, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
  6. ^ Steffens, Gena (2016-05-13). "Paradise found in Colombia's Caquetá department". The City Paper Bogotá. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  7. ^ Ruiz-Agudelo, César Augusto; Gutiérrez-Bonilla, Francisco de Paula; Cortes-Gómez, Angela María; Suarez, Andrés (2022-12-01). "A first approximation to the Colombian Amazon basin remnant natural capital. Policy and development implications". Trees, Forests and People. 10: 100334. doi:10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100334. ISSN 2666-7193.
  8. ^ Garzón, Natasha V.; Rodríguez León, Carlos H.; Ceccon, Eliane; Pérez, Daniel R. (September 2020). "Ecological restoration-based education in the Colombian Amazon: toward a new society–nature relationship". Restoration Ecology. 28 (5). Society for Ecological Restoration. doi:10.1111/rec.13216.
  9. ^ Procolombia. "Department of Caquetá: jungle, rivers and Amazonian culture". colombia.co. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  10. ^ "Latin America & The Caribbean Weekly Situation Update as of 18 July 2025 | OCHA". UNOCHA. 2025-07-18. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  11. ^ "Reloj de Población". DANE. Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísitica. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  12. ^ Reports, Colombia (2022-07-15). "Caqueta | Colombia Reports". Colombia News. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  13. ^ Team, Amazon Conservation (2015-10-15). "The Caquetá government makes history for the rights of indigenous communities". Amazon Conservation Team. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  14. ^ "Resultados Elecciones Gobernador de Caquetá". Gestion de Datos Abiertos. Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  15. ^ "Gobernadora interina para Caquetá". La Nación (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  16. ^ "La quindiana Martha Liliana Agudelo fue elegida gobernadora de Caquetá". Cronica del Quindio (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  17. ^ a b "En el nuevo mapa político coaliciones se quedaron con 14 alcaldías y 25 gobernaciones". La República (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2020-07-13. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  18. ^ Casa Editorial El Tiempo (2019-06-07). "Gobierno designa gobernador encargado para Caquetá". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2020-03-14. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  19. ^ "Decreto 1673 del 2019" (PDF). Ministry of the Interior of Colombia. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  20. ^ "Luis Francisco Ruiz, nuevo gobernador del Caquetá; Marlon Monsalve, nuevo alcalde de Florencia". PARES (in Spanish). 2023-11-23. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  21. ^ "Símbolos". caqueta.gov.co (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
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