page_title: Valledupar
section_title: Corregimientos
hierarchical_section_title: Valledupar / Politics / Administrative divisions / Corregimientos
caption_attribution_description: Map of Corregimientos of Valledupar
context_page_description: Valledupar is a city and municipality in northeastern Colombia. It is the capital of Cesar Department. Its name, Valle de Upar, was established in honor of the Amerindian cacique who ruled the valley; Cacique Upar. The city lies between the mountains of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá to the borders of the Guatapurí and Cesar rivers.
  Valledupar is an important agricultural, cattle raising, coal mining and agro-industrial center for the region between the Departments of Cesar and southern municipalities of La Guajira Department, formerly known as the Padilla Province. Valledupar is notable as the cradle of vallenato music, representative of the Colombian culture. The city hosts the Vallenato Legend Festival.
  During the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, the city suffered during the Colombian Armed Conflict, with numerous kidnappings, thousands of people forced out and failure to control crime.
  Valledupar has one of Colombia's most modern maximum security prisons.
context_section_description: The Municipality of Valledupar is divided into six different geographic zones integrated by subdivisions called Corregimientos (25), and subdivisions to this called Veredas (125) and considered rural areas of the city of Valledupar:
  Northern Zone: 5 corregimientos divided into 42 veredas.
  Corregimientos:
  Atanquez
  Guatapurí
  Chemesquemena
  La Mina
  Los Haticos
  Northwestern Zone: 10 corregimientos divided into 4 veredas.
  Corregimientos:
  Guacoche
  Guacochito
  La Vega Arriba
  Los Corazones
  El Jabo
  Las Raices
  El Alto la Vuelta
  Badillo
  Patillal
  Rio Seco
  Southeastern Zone: 2 corregimientos divided into 13 veredas.
  Corregimientos:
  Aguas Blancas
  Valencia de Jesús
  Southern Zone: 4 corregimientos divided into 15 veredas.
  Corregimientos:
  Guaimaral
  Caracoli
  Los Venados
  El Perro
  Southwestern Zone: 2 corregimientos divided into 30 veredas.
  Corregimientos:
  Mariangola
  Villa Germania
  Northwestern Zone: 2 corregimientos divided into 21 veredas.
  Corregimientos:
  Sabana Crespo
  Azúcar Buena
caption: Corregimientos in the Municipality of Valledupar.
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