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By Michel Hermelin
This publication offers an enticing and informative evaluation of Colombian landscapes and their geological evolution, together with finished descriptions of seventeen key chosen websites within the kingdom.
It presents perception into the geomorphological variety of Colombian landscapes characterised through climatic and topographic edition. The booklet covers the essence of the landscapes within the kingdom: coastal
positive factors, dust volcanoes, desertic geoforms, snow lined peaks, energetic volcanoes, deeply incised canyons and subdesertic valleys. It contributes wisdom and figuring out into Colombian landscapes
and prospects.
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They live in small groups of houses (rancherías, pichipala) with communal water wells and cemetery. Wayúus believe in a supreme being, Maleiwa, the Creator, together with secondary gods. Several places have a special significance, like Jepirra, a ridge in the La Vela Cape, which is considered sacred because this is where the Wayúu souls rest. In this place, Wayúus may live and goats may graze, but the land cannot be sold and white people cannot live there. A Wayúu dies twice: the first when death occurs, the soul is liberated from the body and lives in Jepirra; then he dies for the second time 5 or 6 years later, and the body remains are exhumed and carried to the cemetery of the locality where the deceased was born.
Adapted from Carvajal (2001) Fig. 6 North-looking view of the La Popa hill. H. Carvajal Fig. 7 Geomorphological map of the Punta Canoas–Bayunca zone. Mud volcanoes are located on the top of pressure ridges. Seismic cross-section, modified from Ordoñez (2008) and blocks with diameters up to 1 m. These materials were produced by ancient eruptions which produced mudflows or mud breccias, predominantly composed of quartz feldspatic sandstones, claystones, siltstones, reef limestones and calcareous sandstones, calcite, and locally pyrite blocks (Carvajal and Mendivelso 2010, 2011; Carvajal 2011, 2012).