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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 ...
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.
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.
Trazado de los bordes del mapa basado en los mapas de Demis (ver licencia aquí) y OpenStreetMap (ver licencia aquí. Trazado de los límites departamentales y municipales, así como la localización de sus respectivas capitales, obtenidos de los mapas ubicados en este mapa de commons .
These are generally internal administrative authorities of the departments, more historical than legal. Most Colombian departments have this kind of subdivision. Those that do not are the departments of Amazonas, Arauca, Caquetá, Casanare, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo, San Andrés y Providencia, Vaupés, and Vichada.
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.
Department Area (km²) 1: Amazonas: 109,497 2: Vichada: 100,063 3: Caquetá: 92,831 4: Meta: 82,830 5: Guainía: 71,289 6: Antioquia: 62,809 7: Guaviare: 55,544 8 ...
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.