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Putumayo
is a
depairtment
o
Colombie
. It is in the soothwast o the kintra, borderin
Ecuador
an
Peru
. Its caipital is
Mocoa
.
The wird
putumayo
comes frae the
Quechua
leid. The verb
putuy
means "tae spring fort" or "tae burst oot", an
mayo
is a variant o
mayu
, meanin river. Thus it means "gushin river".
Template:Municipalities o Putamayo
Oreeginally, the soothwast o the depairtment was territory o the Cofan Indians, the northwast o the Kamentxa Indians, an the center an sooth belang tae tribes that spoke Tukano leids (such as the Siona), an the east tae tribes that spak Witoto leids. Pairt o the Kamentxa territory wis conquered bi the Inca Huayna Capac in 1492, who efter crossin the Cofan territory, established a Quechua population on the valley o Sibundoy, that is kent the day as Ingas. Efter the Inca defeat in 1533, the region wis invadit bi the Spaingie in 1542 an syne 1547 admeenistered bi Catholic missions.
The current territory o Putumayo wis linkit tae Popayan durin the Spaingie Colony an on the firsts Republican decades belangit tae the huge "Depairtment o Asuay, that includit territories in Ecuador an Peru. Later stairts a ling process o territorial redistributions:
- 1831: Province o
Popayan
.
- 1857:
Estado Federal del Cauca
.
- 1886: Depairtament o
Cauca
.
- 1905: Intendencia del Putumayo.
- 1909: Intendencia del
Caqueta
.
- 1912: Comisaria Especial del Putumayo.
- 1953: Departament o
Narino
.
- 1957: Comisaria Especial del Putumayo.
- 1968: Intendencia Especial del Putumayo.
- 1991:
Departament o Putumayo
.
A daurk chapter in the history o Putumayo wis the
rubber fever
, frae the late 19t century till the 20t century. Durin this period, the Casa Arana enslavit an killed thoosans o natives frae Amazonie, these wur uised tae extract natural rubber. Nouadays, housomeivver, a few native communities exist that athstuid the Spaingie colonization, the rubber exploitation, the recent ile extraction an the modren colonization.
