El Encanto
{{About|the town in Colombia|other uses|Encanto (disambiguation)}}
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El Encanto is a town and municipality in the Amazonas Department of Colombia. It is located in the mouth of the Cara Paraná River, a tributary of the Putumayo River (Içá).
El Encanto can be reached by air or river. The local navy base has a runway available only to military and official planes, established during the Colombia-Peru War. By river the closest towns with airport access are Puerto Arturo, Peru from downstream, and Puerto Leguízamo (Putumayo Department, Colombia) upstream.
The majority of the inhabitants in the area are Huitotos indigenous tribes. The municipality has an area of {{convert|10724|km2|sqmi|0|disp=or}}. In 2005, it had a population of 4,376 people.
File:The main house at El Encanto, belonging to Miguel S. Loayza.jpg
History
El Encanto was founded shortly before the 1900s by rubber tappers looking to take advantage of the local natives as a work force. The rubber boom had drastic effects in the Putumayo region, where El Encanto is located. The land owned by Arana was split into two 'departments': La Chorrera on the Igaraparaná and El Encanto, headquarters for sections on the Caraparaná. By 1904, the settlement came under the control of Julio César Arana and what would become the Peruvian Amazon Company. The companies efforts to extract rubber and profit culminated in the Putumayo genocide: enslaving, abusing, starving, exhausting, and murdering local populations. At the time of Roger Casement's visit to the Putumayo, the station was under the control of Miguel S. Loayza.{{cite book |last1=Hardenburg |first1=Walter |title=The Putumayo, the Devil's Paradise; Travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an Account of the Atrocities Committed Upon the Indians Therein |date=1912 |publisher=London: Fischer Unwin |location=Putumayo |isbn=1372293019 |page=203 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45204/45204-h/45204-h.htm |access-date=29 June 2023}}
Before the border of the Putumayo was changed thanks to the Salomón–Lozano Treaty: Julio Cesar Arana, Miguel S. Loayza, and Carlos Loayza initiated a series of forced migrations. Between 1922 and 1930 groups of natives from the right bank of the Putumayo were resettled in the Ampiyacu basin of Loreto, Peru: so the three of them could retain their work force. At least 6,719 indigenous people were moved from the region: and 50% of them died from disease.{{cite book |last1=Víctor San Román |first1=Jesús |title=Perfiles históricos de la amazonía peruana |date=January 1, 1994 |publisher=Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana |location=Peru / Colombia |isbn=8489295808 |pages=191–192 |url=http://www.iiap.org.pe/upload/publicacion/L009.pdf |access-date=18 July 2023}}
File:The administrators of El Encanto, with their boss Miguel S. Loayza.png
Climate
El Encanto has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with heavy rainfall year-round.
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|Jan high C = 31.3
|Feb high C = 31.6
|Mar high C = 31.2
|Apr high C = 31.4
|May high C = 31.4
|Jun high C = 31.0
|Jul high C = 29.7
|Aug high C = 29.8
|Sep high C = 30.8
|Oct high C = 31.1
|Nov high C = 31.2
|Dec high C = 31.5
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|Jan mean C = 26.6
|Feb mean C = 26.7
|Mar mean C = 26.5
|Apr mean C = 26.5
|May mean C = 26.7
|Jun mean C = 25.6
|Jul mean C = 25.4
|Aug mean C = 25.8
|Sep mean C = 26.2
|Oct mean C = 26.4
|Nov mean C = 27.1
|Dec mean C = 26.6
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|Jan low C = 22.0
|Feb low C = 21.8
|Mar low C = 21.8
|Apr low C = 21.7
|May low C = 22.4
|Jun low C = 21.5
|Jul low C = 21.0
|Aug low C = 20.9
|Sep low C = 21.3
|Oct low C = 22.2
|Nov low C = 23.1
|Dec low C = 21.8
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|rain colour = green
|Jan rain mm = 210.7
|Feb rain mm = 230.2
|Mar rain mm = 303.3
|Apr rain mm = 341.6
|May rain mm = 333.1
|Jun rain mm = 293.7
|Jul rain mm = 250.4
|Aug rain mm = 229.1
|Sep rain mm = 183.3
|Oct rain mm = 197.4
|Nov rain mm = 256.3
|Dec rain mm = 236.2
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|Jan rain days = 14
|Feb rain days = 14
|Mar rain days = 17
|Apr rain days = 16
|May rain days = 19
|Jun rain days = 19
|Jul rain days = 17
|Aug rain days = 14
|Sep rain days = 14
|Oct rain days = 14
|Nov rain days = 15
|Dec rain days = 15
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|source 2 = Climate-Data.org{{cite web
|url = https://en.climate-data.org/location/50246/
|title = Climate: El Encanto
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References
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External links
{{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225500/http://www.amazonas.gov.co/index.cfm?doc=displaypage&sid=23&cid=20&pid=15 El Encanto official website]
{{Municipalities amazonas department}}
Category:Municipalities of Amazonas (Colombian department)
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