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Capital district and Colombian regions Distrito Capital y los Departamentos de Colombia ; Category: Unitary state: Location: Republic of Colombia: Number: 32 Departments 1 Capital District: Populations: 48,932 – 8,906,342 (Capital District) Areas: 50 km 2 (19.3 sq mi) (San Andrés) – 109,665.0 km 2 (42,341.89 sq mi) Government
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.
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.
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 .
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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.
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.