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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
States of Colombia existed from February 27, 1855, in the Republic of New Granada and the Granadine Confederation, where they were called "federal states". In the United States of Colombia they were called "sovereign states" (though they were not at all sovereign states in the modern sense of the word).
La Guajira: Provinces (Provincias) Northern (Norte) Province Southern (Sur) or Padilla Province Meta: Subregions (Subregiones) Ariari Capital Piedemonte Río Meta Nariño: Provinces (Provincias) Juanambú (La Unión) Obando (Ipiales) Pasto Tumaco-Barbacoas Túquerres Norte de Santander: Subregions (Subregiones) [6] Central (Centro) Northern (Norte)
Antioquia is the sixth-largest Department of Colombia.It is predominantly mountainous, crossed by the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes.The Cordillera Central divides to form the Aburrá valley, in which the capital, Medellín, is located.
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, officially the Republic of Colombia, 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.
Cattleya trianae is the national flower of Colombia. The national flower of Colombia is the orchid Cattleya trianae, [1] which was named after the Colombian naturalist José Jerónimo Triana. The orchid was selected by botanist Emilio Robledo, in representation of the Colombian Academy of History to determine the most representative flowering ...
En la faja inferior va el Istmo de Panamá, en azul, con sus dos mares adyacentes ondeados de plata, y un navío negro, con sus velas desplegadas, en cada uno de ellos. El escudo reposa sobre cuatro banderas divergentes de la base, de las cuales las dos inferiores formarán un ángulo de noventa grados, y las dos superiores irán separadas de ...