News from Colombia---Sunday, Day 3

Sunday, Day 3 of Team Colombia's trip:

Acclimation day started with devotionals then a trip through communities where we will take water samples.

Stopped for boot-leg gas brought over the border from Venezuela which costs $1.25/gallon

Began lab set-up with help from Stanley of Aguayuda.

Put our toes in the Caribbean.  To have so much ocean on one side with a drought on the other side is hard to comprehend.



Monday we go out to three Wayuu* communities for samples.  We are anxious to start.

*Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayúu, Guajiro, Wahiro) is an American Indian ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela. The Wayuu language is part of the Maipuran (Arawak) language family.

The Wayuu inhabit the arid Guajira Peninsula straddling the Venezuela-Colombia border, on the Caribbean Sea coast. Two major rivers flow through this mostly harsh environment: the Rancheria River in Colombia and the El Limón River in Venezuela representing the main source of water, along with artificial ponds designed to hold rain water during the rain season.

Guajira Peninsula

The center of the  circled area is Riohacha, and the Guajira peninsula is to the northeast.


We hope and pray that the time and energy spent in the Wayuu communities is successful!

The territory has equatorial weather seasons: a rainy season from September to December, which they call Juyapu; a dry season, known by them as Jemial, from December to April; a second rainy season called Iwa from April to May; and a long second dry season from May to September.