Tame is a town and municipality in the
Arauca Department
Arauca () is a departments of Colombia, department of Eastern Colombia located in the extreme north of the Orinoco River, Orinoco Basin of Colombia (the Orinoquía Region, Llanos Orientales), bordering Venezuela. The southern boundary of Arauca ...
,
Colombia
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. The municipality has a total area of around .
History
The region was explored by the German conquistador Jorge de Espira in 1536. There he encountered several Indian tribes from the
Arawakan
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and the
Goajiboan language families;
Arauca,
Caquetio
Caquetío are natives of northwestern Venezuela, living along the shores of Lake Maracaibo at the time of the Spanish conquest. They moved inland to avoid enslavement by the Spaniards, while their numbers were drastically affected by colonia ...
,
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, to the northeast with the municipality of
Arauquita, to the east with the municipality of
Puerto Rondón, to the south with the
Casanare Department
Casanare (, ) is a department located in the central eastern of Colombia. It is famous for its oil and natural gas production as well as its livestock and extensive plains. It is also the tenth largest department with an area of 44,490 km2, ...
and to the west with the
Boyacá Department
Boyacá () is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".
Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the mount ...
.
Climate
Tame has a
tropical monsoon climate
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(
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* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
''Am'') with moderate to little rainfall from December to March and heavy to very heavy rainfall from April to November.
Transportation
The city is served by
Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport.
References
External links
*
Tame official website
Municipalities of Arauca Department
Populated places established in 1628
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