Goa.i ira Peninsula * 
Naturalist's Guide to the Americas, The Williams & Wilkins Company, 
Baltimore, Md., publ. February, 1926. 
(P. 630). The northern-most prolongation of Colombia is mostly a 
low arid sandy land, but includes also in the heart of the peninsula 
proper a considerable district of low hills. It is mostly a land of 
coarse grasses, brushy scrub and Cactaceae, in aridity exceeding any 
other part of Colombia. The extensive prairies are said to be covered 
chiefly with the thin grass, Aristida . and the occasional marsh areas 
with the sensitive plant. Mimosa . while conspicuous along water-courses 
is the Anacardium (caracoli). 
"The mammals are similar to those of the Caribbean llanos. A small 
black-naped rabbit ( Sylvilagus nigronuchalis ) is peculiar to this and 
the adjoining region in Venezuela." 
The rainfall of the Goajira Peninsula is seasonal as on the llanos 
of Bolivar and Upar but is much less in quantity, the rains occurring 
only from May to October. 
Some guinea grass has become naturalized in a few areas, but 
otherwise this land, occupied only by the Goa jiro Indians, has scarcely 
been altered by man. 
The Goajira Peninsula may be reached by Indian trails from Rio Hacha 
a port along the Caribbean coast east of Santa Marta. 
