Tame is a town and municipality in the Arauca Department

Arauca Department

Arauca is a department of Colombia located in the extreme north of the Orinoco part of Colombia , bordering Venezuela. It is bordered to the south by the Casanare River and the Meta River, which separate it from the departments of Casanare and Vichada. To the west borders with the Boyacá Department...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

. The municipality has a total area of 5,300 km².

History

The region was explored by the German conquistador Jorge de Espira in 1536. There he encountered several Indian tribes from the Arawakan

Arawakan languages

Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean based on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes the proposal is called Arawakan, in which case the central family is called Maipurean....

 and the Goajiboan

Guajiboan languages

Guajiboan is a language family spoken in the Orinoco River region in eastern Colombia and southwestern Venezuela, which is a savannah-like area known in Colombia as the Llanos.-Family division:...

 language families; Arauca, Caquetio, Lucalia, Girara, Chiricoa, Cuiba, Guahibo and Achagua. The Girara people lived at the exact location of the modern town (or closest to).

Tame was founded by Alonso Pérez de Guzmán on June 12, 1628. He also founded "Espinosa de las Palmas" nearby, for civilian Spaniards. The village was destroyed a few years later by the natives in confrontations in which Pérez de Guzmán and his soldiers were killed by the Girara Indians of Tame in revenge for the slavery treatment.

Geography

The municipality of Arauca borders to the north with the municipality of Fortul

Fortul

Fortul is a town and municipality in the Arauca Department, Colombia....

, to the northeast with the municipality of Arauquita

Arauquita

Arauquita is a town and municipality in the Arauca Department, Colombia....

, to the east with the municipality of Puerto Rondón

Puerto Rondón

Puerto Rondón is a town and municipality in the Arauca Department, Colombia....

, to the south with the Casanare Department

Casanare Department

Casanare is a department of Colombia. It is in the central eastern region of the country. Its capital is Yopal. It contains oil fields and an 800 km pipeline leading to the coastal port of Coveñas owned by BP.-Municipalities:# Aguazul# Chameza...

 and to the west with the Boyacá Department

Boyacá Department

Boyacá is one of the 32 Departments of Colombia, and the remnant of one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the mountains of the Eastern Cordillera to the border with Venezuela, although the western end...

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External links

Tame official website
el aeropuerto de Tame es denominado "General Vargas Santos"- aprenda para cuando yo me muera - estos no son derechos de autor es patrimonio historico de Tame (Arauca)