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Official: Spanish: Indigenous: Arawakan languages, Barbacoan languages, Bora–Witoto languages, Cariban languages, Chibchan languages, Choco languages, Guajiboan ...
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
Colombian Soccer fans in Russia, showing the diversity of Colombians. Total population; Mixed ancestry predominates 49%–60% [1] [2] of the Colombian population: Regions with significant populations
The demographics of Colombia consist of statistics regarding Colombians' health, economic status, religious affiliations, ethnicity, population density, and other aspects of the population.
In the Pre-Columbian era, the total population of Colombia was estimated to be around 6 million people. [10] [11] However, after Spanish conquest, the population of Colombia was lowered to only 750 thousand people, in which native peoples made up 80% of the population at 600 thousand people. [12]
Colombia officially acknowledges three ethnic minority groups: the Afro-Colombian, indigenous, and Romani populations. The Afro-Colombian population consists mainly of the African diaspora, mulattoes, raizales, palenqueros, and zambos (a term used since colonial times for individuals of mixed Amerindian and African ancestry).
Colombian Spanish (Spanish: español colombiano) is a grouping of the varieties of Spanish spoken in Colombia.The term is of more geographical than linguistic relevance, since the dialects spoken in the various regions of Colombia are quite diverse.
Map showing ancient pre-Columbian cultures in northern South America. Tairona or Tayrona was a Pre-Columbian culture of Colombia, which consisted in a group of chiefdoms in the region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America, which goes back at least to the 1st century AD and had significant demographic growth around ...