Chaira

Chairá lies beside the Caguán River in the forested lowlands of Caquetá. The river descends from the eastern Andes and continues towards the Caquetá and the Amazon basin. Indigenous inhabitants of the district included the Huitoto, and the name Chairá has been explained as meaning “cave of tigers” in an Indigenous language. The broad river and its tributaries carry water through the humid forest that surrounds the site.