La_Chorrera,_Colombia
La Chorrera, Colombia
Municipality and town in Amazonas Department, Colombia
La Chorrera is a town and municipality in the southern Colombian Department of Amazonas.[1] The population is largely engaged in agricultural production, hunting, fishing, and banana and cassava growing. The municipality was once a notable site for rubber production: exploited by the Peruvian Julio César Arana, who owned the Peruvian Amazon Company at the turn of the 20th century, north of the Putumayo River. The territory has an area of 12,670 km².
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