The Amazon Forest:
The Amazonian region in Colombia
is a territory that "has an extension of 403,348
kilometers square equal to the 35,4% of the terrestrial
surface of the country and includes the departments
of Caquetá, Putumayo, Amazon, Vaupés,
Guainía and Guaviare, and represents more extensive
the terrestrial international borders of the country
with Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador".
This
is one of the few places of the world in which the man
still has not had an active presence, leaving this territory
like a paradise in which exist a diversity of resources
that will help in the environmental, medicinal, and
animal studies.
In
the Amazonian region have "88 Indigenious Territories
(IT), discriminated in three departments: Putumayo (30
IT), Caquetá (38 IT) and Amazon (28 IT). They
occupy an approximated area of 9.922.146 hectares. With
a population of 29,073 people, 5,619 families ".
This statictics shows that the people that lives in
the Amazonian Region are very important for the future
of the wolrd and stop global warming.
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