La Guajira Desert

La Guajira Department · Colombia

La Guajira Desert, Colombia
Photo: Luis Alejandro Bernal Romero from Bogotá, Colombia, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
December to April
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A windswept peninsula where desert dunes meet the Caribbean Sea at the northern tip of South America. The arid homeland of the Wayuu people ends at the cliffs of Punta Gallinas.

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