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Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities (Spanish: municipios, sing. municipio).Municipal government is composed by a mayor (alcalde) and a Municipal Council (concejo municipal), both of them elected by popular vote for a four-year period or more.
Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two administrative divisions referred to as departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and one Capital District (Distrito Capital). [1] Each department has a governor (gobernador) and an Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor ...
Español: Mapa de Colombia denotando su hidrografía y división administrativa en departamentos y municipios. Mapa compuesto con los mapas localizadores de la categoría Location maps of Colombia . Date
Map of Colombia Bogotá, Capital of Colombia Medellín Cali Barranquilla Cartagena Cúcuta Santa Marta. This article lists cities and towns in Colombia by population, according to the 2005 census. A city is displayed in bold if it is a capital city of a department.
Colombia is divided into 32 departments. These in turn are divided into municipalities , though some receive the special category of district . However, there are also provinces , a generic name applied to provinces, districts, regions and subregions.
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This is a list of Colombian departments by population according to a general census taken in 2018, the 2005 census, and by estimates for 2020 made by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Spanish: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística). The five most populous departments contain almost half of the total population.
According to Law 1617 of 2013, [1] for the creation of new districts, the following conditions must be met: They must have more than 600 thousand inhabitants, according to DANE certification , or be located in coastal areas, as long as they have potential for the development of ports or for tourism and culture; that is, they are the capital municipality of a border department.