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WHAT WE MADE4

I carried out the practice Option Colombia in Inírida, the capital of the department of Guainía.  Their urban helmet is quite small, more or less the size of Jamundíe8.  Its population is compound mainly for colonists coming from different parts of the country, in an approximate proportion of 60%.  The other 40% is integrated by indigenous of several ethnos that inhabit the department at rural level and of an important percentage of indigenous groups that migrated from Vaupés.

The great majority doesn't possess an educational level above the high school; the professionals that live in Inírida all of them have arrived through Bogotá to work with the municipal or departmental government.  The only communication ways are the river Inírida and two airlines, Satena and AeroRepública that arrive two or three times per week.

The department of Guainía is located in the eastern end of the country, in the limits with Brazil and Venezuela, surrounded by Vichada, Guaviare and Vaupés.  Most of its territory is forest and water.  Their rulers consider the department inside the corpes5 of the Orinoquia for political and economic convenience, but in the strictly geographical sense, only the rivers Guaviare, Atabapo and Inírida end in the Orinoco.  The rivers Negro, Isana, Cuyarí and Guainía belong to the Amazonia.  The whole territory is crossed by infinity of brooks that end in their turn in the main rivers.

The natives are the majority of its population, with an approximate total of 24 cultures.  The puinave and the curripaco are the biggest ethnos, but there are also guahibos, sikuanis, yerales and others.  They are hard to quantify for the population's mobility.  They inhabit the riversides, distributed in small communities of not more than 800 inhabitants, very distant to each other.  Only Inírida, the capital, has near 14 thousand inhabitants, with a percentage of floating population of 25 percent.

In the Inírida river the ethnos puinave prevails; in the Atabapo and in the Guainía, the curripaco; in the Isana-Cuyarí and in the Negro river the latter share the territory with the yeral; the Guaviare is inhabited by different ethnoses, mainly those coming from Vichada and Vaupés.  According to the DANE, the total of the ethnoses they make the population's 98.8%, but, if I only lean on in my observations, I could say that the real figure oscillates between the 70 and 80%.  However, the census doesn't consider the mobile population neither the recently displaced colonists.

Inírida is the only municipality, the other ones are corregimientose9 and the gobernacióne10 administers them.  Anyway, the rural area that controls the Mayor's office is immense.  It begins in the Guaviare, it arrives until the Middle Inírida River and it includes discharging brooks.

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4 
This section is based on the answer to a feedback to the university format that presented us the Corporation Option Colombia.  A copy of the original format is in appendix 1.  The corporation waited a project in common among all those that return of the regions, but the idea didn't clot, because the whole group of those "reinserted" was very dispersed and occupied in its own matters.  
 
e8 A village town in Cali's surroundings.  
 
5 Financial Corporation for Regional Development (a dependence of the National Budget Planning Office.)  
 
e9 The least populated administrative rural division.  
 
e10 The governor's office.  
 

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Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.  Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, Amen.  Hail, O Mary, highly favored one, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.  Holy Mary, Mother of God, requests now for us the sinners and in the hour of our death, amen.