Besides the Perijá along Venezuela's northwest border, northern Colombia's share of the Andes includes the isolated Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta(5) which tops out at Cristóbal at 5700 meters.
This is one part of a large area of the Americas where Spanish and Roman Catholic Christianity represent the majority.
One set of pre-Columbian languages was the Arawakan group, spoken in La Guajira as well as southeastern Colombia.
north
east from La Guajira and northern El César
south of Santander and southeast of southern El César
southwest
(1) Translates as Sugar.
(2) Translates as Atlantic.
(3) Translates as Caesar.
(4) Translates as The.
(5) Translates as Snowy mountains of Saint Martha.