Municipalities of Vichada
Complete list of the 4 municipalities of Vichada in alphabetical order, by population, climate and founding date, all the information of each municipality.
The department of Vichada belongs to the Orinoquía region of Colombia and is the second largest department in the country with 100,242 km², second only to Amazonas. Despite its enormous size, Vichada has only four municipalities and a total population of about 100,000 inhabitants, making it the department with the lowest population density in Colombia: less than 1 inhabitant per km². Its vast plains and transition forests are bathed by the Orinoco River —which forms its border with Venezuela— and crossed by rivers such as the Vichada, Meta and Tomo. The municipality of Cumaribo is the largest in all of Colombia with 65,674 km², larger than countries like Ireland or Croatia. In this territory live indigenous communities of the Sikuani, Piapoco, Puinave and Curripaco peoples, who have been adapted for centuries to life in the flooded savanna and Amazon rainforest.
LIST OF MUNICIPALITIES OF VICHADA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Below is the list of the 4 municipalities of Vichada in alphabetical order:
- Cumaribo
- La Primavera
- Puerto Carreño
- Santa Rosalía
Below the 4 municipalities of Vichada in a list including the area to which they belong:
| Municipality Name | Area |
| Puerto Carreño | Norte (frontera con Venezuela) |
| La Primavera | Norte |
| Santa Rosalía | Noroeste |
| Cumaribo | Sur |
MUNICIPALITIES OF VICHADA BY POPULATION
| Name | Inhabitants |
| Cumaribo | 38000 |
| Puerto Carreño | 18000 |
| La Primavera | 14000 |
| Santa Rosalía | 5500 |
MUNICIPALITIES OF VICHADA BY CLIMATE
| Municipality Name | Average Temperature |
| Puerto Carreño | 33º c |
| La Primavera | 30º c |
| Cumaribo | 28º c |
| Santa Rosalía | 28º c |
DATE OF FOUNDATION OF MUNICIPALITIES OF VICHADA
The history of the municipalities of Vichada is linked to missionary exploration and the late colonization of the eastern plains of Colombia. Puerto Carreño was founded in 1938 during the presidency of Alfonso López Pumarejo, as a strategy to strengthen the presence of the Colombian State on the border with Venezuela. The department of Vichada was created by the 1991 Constitution, separating from Meta. Complete list:
| Municipality Name | Date of Foundation |
| Puerto Carreño | 1938 |
| La Primavera | 1954 |
| Cumaribo | 1974 |
| Santa Rosalía | 1992 |
MUNICIPALITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VICHADA
The 4 municipalities of Vichada are distributed across a territory that combines flooded savannas, morichales, streams and gallery forest. Communication between them is mainly by air —each municipality has an airstrip— and by the Orinoco, Meta and Vichada rivers. Puerto Carreño, the capital, has a land connection to the Venezuelan city of Puerto Páez through the binational bridge over the Meta River. The department's economy revolves around extensive cattle ranching on the great savannas, artisanal fishing, forestry and, in recent years, the growing cultivation of oil palm and rubber. The landscape of the Vichada Orinoquía, with its sunsets over the rivers and the immensity of the plain, is one of the most imposing in Colombia.