Place:Amazonas, Colombia

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Name
Amazonas
Alternate names
Amazonas     (Wikipedia)
Type
Department
Coordinates
1°S 72°W
Located in
Colombia
Contained Places

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Inhabited place
Arambaza
Arica
Bárbara
El Encanto
La Chorrera
La Pedrera
Leticia
Matarca
Puerto Alfonso
Puerto Reyes
Puerto Toledo
Santa Clara
Tarapacá
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Amazonas is a department of Colombia in the south of the country. Its capital is Leticia. Its name comes from the Amazon River that drains much in the department and the rainforest that covers a large part of the department.

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