Araracuara, Colombia — Wikipedia

Araracuara is a remote settlement (centro poblado) in the municipality of Solano, Caquetá Department, Colombia, situated on the north bank of the Caquetá River in the western Amazon basin. The settlement lies across the river from the locality of Puerto Santander in Amazonas Department, at a point where the Caquetá narrows into a deep sandstone canyon known as the Cañón de Araracuara or Raudal de Araracuara. The name Araracuara derives from a Tupí-Guaraní word meaning 'macaw's nest', a reference to the large colonies of macaws that inhabit the canyon walls. As of the 2018 Colombian census,...