According to archaeologists, the Wayuu’s ancestors began settling in La Guajira some 10,000 years ago. These people originally came from Central America and gradually settled along the Caribbean coast ...

In La Guajira, Colombia, the Wayuu people face worsening climate impacts, with droughts and intense rains causing food insecurity, flooding, and displacement. Skip to content Menu Today's paper.

Wayuu people may travel hours on foot or bicycle to get water from wells or natural aquifers called jagüeyes. Even when they reach water, it is often turbid, salty, or contaminated.

Wayuu bags originate from the Wayuu people, an Indigenous community located in the La Guajira Peninsula, between Colombia and Venezuela. For generations, ...

RIOHACHA, Colombia (AP) — Climate change is rapidly altering the way of life of the Indigenous Wayuu people, a semi-nomadic Indigenous group living in the arid La Guajira region, which ...

More than 1,300 people have attended hygiene workshops and 2,482 people now have safe water access. The goal is to reach 6,000 children and their families with safe water, and to have 21 ...

She lives in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Riohacha, in northern Colombia’s arid, wind-swept region, where thousands of other Wayuu people, native to the La Guajira region spanning ...

Wayuu people consider it more comfortable for sleeping than a hammock. This family, also made up of Wayuu migrants from Venezuela, lives in an informal settlement, right beside Riohacha’s airport.

In La Guajira, Colombia, the Wayuu people face worsening climate impacts, with droughts and intense rains causing food insecurity, flooding, and displacement By Associated Press March 4, 2025 ...