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Providencia Island and Santa Catalina Island (a small satellite island close off its northern end) extend 7.2 km in a north–south direction. The land area of Providencia Island measures 17 km 2. The mountainous center of Providencia Island rises to three peaks of about the same elevation: roughly 363 meters.
The smaller Santa Catalina Island to the northwest is connected by a 100-metre (330 ft) footbridge to its larger sister Providencia Island. Providencia Island has an area of 17 square kilometres (6.6 sq mi); [ 1 ] the two islands cover an area of 22 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi) and form the municipality of Santa Isabel, which had a population ...
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.
San Andrés is the largest of the island group in the Department of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providence and Saint Catherine. San Andrés is located in the Caribbean Sea, about 750 km (470 mi) northwest of the coast of Colombia. [4] The island is 13 km (8.1 mi) [20] in length and 3 km (1.9 mi) in width. [21]
It is the 6th busiest airport in Colombia, handling 836,234 passengers in 2006. Most of these passengers come from the continental part of the country, due to poor international direct service to the island. Many international tourists have to fly to one of Colombia's largest airports to be able to reach the islands.
Santa Cruz del Islote (Spanish for: Santa Cruz of the Islet or Holy Cross of the Islet) is an artificial island located off the coast of Bolívar Department in Colombia, close to Tolú and Coveñas. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is a part of the Archipelago of San Bernardo . [ 4 ]
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As the Federation of Gran Colombia was dissolved in 1830, the Department of Cundinamarca (as established in Angostura) became a new country, the Republic of New Granada. [ 22 ] Colombia was the first nation in the Andean area to believe that racial inferiority was the cause of many of its initial problems.