Uribia (La Guajira, Colombia)

Last modified: 2021-08-26 by klaus-michael schneider
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image by Dov Gutterman, 15 August 2008

• Overview
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• Colombia
• La Guajira Department

Overview

Uribia is a municipality of the Colombian Department of La Guajira. It was founded on 1 March 1935 by by Captain Eduardo Londoño Villegas in honor of Colombian Liberal Party leader Rafael Uribe Uribe, prior to this the village was named Chitki in Wayuu language.
The flag of Uribia is horizontally divided yellow-white.
Sources: wikipedia, municipal web site.
Dov Gutterman and Felipe Carillo, 15 August 2008

Coat of Arms

image from municipal web site