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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. These are generally internal administrative authorities of the departments, more historical than ...
Venezuela, Cundinamarca (now Colombia) and Quito (now Ecuador). [5] In 1824, the Distrito del Centro (which became Colombia) was divided into five departments and further divided into seventeen provinces. One department, Isthmus Department, consisting of two provinces, later became the sovereign country of Panama. [6]
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.
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.
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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.
The department's culture descends from a mix of Spanish and Chibcha influences, particularly in the south where the Muisca controlled territory and in the Chicamocha Canyon where the Guane are situated. During the colony and independence war times, people from Santander were especially recognized for their bravery in battle and their policy of ...
The centralist structure that came to be in the Republic of New Granada after the disestablishment of Gran Colombia and that was ratified by the constitution of 1843, was soon challenged; particularly the provinces of Azuero, Chiriquí, Panamá, and Veraguas, who were demanding an autonomous status.