The Caquetá Territory ( es, Territorio del Caquetá) was a

national territory A federal territory is an administrative division under the direct and usually exclusive jurisdiction of a federation's national government. A federal territory is a part of a federation, but not a part of any federated state. The states constit ...

of the

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and the subsequent states of the

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and the

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from 1845 to 1886. Its capital was

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History

The Caquetá Territory was created on May 2, 1845, as a national territory of the

. Its territory was carved out of the Popayan Province. In the 1863 constitution it was made a part of the

Cauca State Cauca State was one of the states of Colombia. Today the area of the former state makes up most of modern-day west and southern Colombia, with some portion of its vast territories acquired by present-day Peru, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela. N ...

. In 1886, the territory was disestablished and its lands transferred to

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History

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