Guajira
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Guajira may refer to:
- Department of La GuajiraDepartment of La GuajiraLa Guajira is a department of Colombia. It occupies most of its namesake peninsula, the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of the country, facing the Caribbean Sea and Venezuela in the northern most part of South America...
, a department of Colombia which includes most of the Guajira Peninsula - La Guajira DesertLa Guajira DesertLa Guajira Desert is located in the northernmost part of Colombia, north of Bogota, in the La Guajira Department, covering most of La Guajira Peninsula including Venezuelan territory. The area holds immense coal reserves, exploited in a zone known as El Cerrejon...
, a desert which covers most of the Guajira Peninsula - Guajira PeninsulaGuajira PeninsulaGuajira Peninsula , is a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea...
, a peninsula in the northernmost part of South America shared by Colombia and Venezuela - Guajiro PeopleWayuuWayuu is an Amerindian ethnic group of the La Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela. They are part of the Maipurean language family.- Geography :...
, (Wayuu) a South American ethnic group inhabiting northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela - Guajira (Cuban slang), a Spanish-language denonym signifying a female from the Cuban countryside (guajiro: male)
- Guajira (music)Guajira (music)Guajira is a musical form which evokes a rural ambience in its texts, instrumentation and style.In the years around 1900 a style of guajira emerged in association with Cuban music theater, especially as composed by Jorge Anckermann.This genre had some similarity to the criolla and, to a lesser...
, a style of Cuban music, song or dance - Guajira, Colombian telenovelaTelenovelaA telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...