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Departments of Colombia

Index Departments of Colombia

Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and a Capital District (Distrito Capital). [1]

97 relations: Administrative division, Amazonas Department, Antioquia Department, Arauca Department, Arauca, Arauca, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Armenia, Colombia, Atlántico Department, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bolívar Department, Boyacá Department, Bucaramanga, Caldas Department, Cali, Capital districts and territories, Caquetá Department, Cartagena, Colombia, Casanare Department, Cauca Department, Córdoba Department, Cúcuta, Cesar Department, Chocó Department, Colombia, Colombian Conservative Party, Colombian Constitution of 1886, Colombian Constitution of 1991, Colombian Liberal Party, Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca Department (1820), Democratic Center (Colombia), Departamento, Department (country subdivision), Dilian Francisca Toro, Enrique Peñalosa, Florencia, Caquetá, Gran Colombia, Green Alliance (Colombia), Guainía Department, Guaviare Department, Huila Department, Ibagué, Inírida, Guainía, ISO 3166-2:CO, Isthmus Department, La Guajira Department, Leticia, Amazonas, List of Colombian flags, List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, ..., Lists of country subdivisions, Magdalena Department, Manizales, Mayor, Medellín, Meta Department, Mitú, Mocoa, Montería, Municipal council, Municipalities of Colombia, Municipio, Nariño Department, Neiva, Huila, Norte de Santander Department, Panama, Pasto, Colombia, Pereira, Colombia, Politics of Colombia, Popayán, Puerto Carreño, Putumayo Department, Quibdó, Quindío Department, Quito Department, Radical Change, Riohacha, Risaralda Department, San Andrés, San Andrés y Providencia, San José del Guaviare, Santa Marta, Santander Department, Sincelejo, Social Party of National Unity, Spanish language, States of Colombia, Sucre Department, Tolima Department, Tunja, Unitary state, Valle del Cauca Department, Valledupar, Vaupés Department, Venezuela Department (1820), Vichada Department, Villavicencio, Yopal. Expand index (47 more) »

Administrative division

An administrative division, unit, entity, area or region, also referred to as a subnational entity, statoid, constituent unit, or country subdivision, is a portion of a country or other region delineated for the purpose of administration.

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Amazonas Department

Department of Amazonas (Departamento del Amazonas) is a department of Colombia in the south of the country.

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Antioquia Department

The Department of Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea.

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Arauca Department

Arauca Department (Departamento de Arauca) is a department of Colombia located in the extreme north of the Orinoco Basin of Colombia (the Llanos Orientales), bordering Venezuela.

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Arauca, Arauca

Arauca is a municipality and capital city of the Arauca Department of Colombia.

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Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina

Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina), or, in everyday language, San Andrés y Providencia, is one of the departments of Colombia.

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Armenia, Colombia

Armenia is the capital of Quindio Department.

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Atlántico Department

Atlántico (Atlantic) is a department of Colombia, located in northern Colombia with the Caribbean Sea to its north, the Bolívar Department to its west and south separated by the Canal del Dique, and the Magdalena Department to its east separated by the Magdalena River.

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Barranquilla

Barranquilla is a city and municipality located in northern Colombia.

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Bogotá

Bogotá, officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santafé de Bogotá between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, administered as the Capital District, although often thought of as part of Cundinamarca.

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Bolívar Department

Bolívar is a department of Colombia.

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Boyacá Department

Boyacá is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".

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Bucaramanga

Bucaramanga is the capital and largest city of the department of Santander, Colombia.

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Caldas Department

Caldas is a department of Colombia named after Colombian patriotic figure Francisco José de Caldas.

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Cali

Santiago de Cali, usually known by its short name "Cali", is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with an estimated 2,319,655 residents according to 2005-2020/DANE population projections.

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Capital districts and territories

A capital district, capital region or capital territory is normally a specially designated administrative division where a country's seat of government is located.

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Caquetá Department

Caquetá Department is a department of Colombia.

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Cartagena, Colombia

The city of Cartagena, known in the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena de Indias), is a major port founded in 1533, located on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region.

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Casanare Department

Casanare Department (Departamento de Casanare) is a department in the central eastern region of Colombia.

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Cauca Department

Cauca Department (Departamento del Cauca) is a Department of Colombia.

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Córdoba Department

Córdoba Department (Departamento de Córdoba) is a Department of the Republic of Colombia located to the north of this country in the Colombian Caribbean Region.

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Cúcuta

Cúcuta, officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian city, capital of Norte de Santander department.

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Cesar Department

Cesar Department (Departamento del Cesar) or simply Cesar is a department of Colombia located in the north of the country in the Caribbean region, bordering to the north with the Department of La Guajira, to the west with the Department of Magdalena and Department of Bolivar, to the south with Department of Santander, to the west with the Department of North Santander, and to the east with the country of Venezuela (Zulia State).

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Chocó Department

Chocó Department (Departamento del Chocó) is a department of Colombia known for its large Afro-Colombian population.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Colombian Conservative Party

The Colombian Conservative Party (Partido Conservador Colombiano) is a conservative political party in Colombia.

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Colombian Constitution of 1886

Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Colombian Constitution of 1886 was the constitution that created the Republic of Colombia.

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Colombian Constitution of 1991

The Constitution of Colombia (Constitución Política de Colombia), better known as the Constitution of 1991, is the current governing document of the Republic of Colombia.

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Colombian Liberal Party

The Colombian Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Colombiano; PLC) is a centrist and social liberal political party in Colombia.

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Cundinamarca Department

Department of Cundinamarca (Departamento de Cundinamarca) is one of the departments of Colombia.

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Cundinamarca Department (1820)

Cundinamarca was one of the three departments of Gran Colombia until 1824.

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Democratic Center (Colombia)

Democratic Centre (identified electorally as Democratic Centre – Strong Hand, Big Heart) (Centro Democrático – Mano firme, corazón grande) is a political party in Colombia founded by Álvaro Uribe, former President, former Vice President Francisco Santos Calderón and former Finance Minister Óscar Iván Zuluaga.

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Departamento

A departamento is a country subdivision in several Latin American countries, mostly as top-level subnational divisions (except in Argentina).

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Department (country subdivision)

A department is an administrative or political subdivision in many countries.

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Dilian Francisca Toro

Dilian Francisca Toro Torres (born 6 January 1959) is a Colombian physician and politician, she served as Senator of Colombia from 2002 to 2013.

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Enrique Peñalosa

Enrique Peñalosa Londoño (born September 30, 1954, Washington, DC) is a Colombian politician.

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Florencia, Caquetá

Florencia (Florence) is a municipality and capital city of the Department of Caquetá, Colombia.

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Gran Colombia

Gran Colombia ("Great Colombia") is a name used today for the state that encompassed much of northern South America and part of southern Central America from 1819 to 1831.

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Green Alliance (Colombia)

The Green Alliance (Alianza Verde) is a Colombian political party located in the centre of the political spectrum.

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Guainía Department

Guainía (Yuri language: "Land of many waters") is a department of Colombia.

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Guaviare Department

Guaviare is a department of Colombia.

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Huila Department

Huila is one of the departments of Colombia.

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Ibagué

Ibagué is the capital of Tolima, one of the 32 departments that make up the Republic of Colombia.

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Inírida, Guainía

Inírida, formerly Puerto Inírida, is the capital city, and a municipality, of the department of Guainía in Colombia.

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ISO 3166-2:CO

ISO 3166-2:CO is the entry for Colombia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Isthmus Department

The Isthmus Department, or Department of Panama (Departamento de Panamá), was one of the departments of the Republic of Gran Colombia and later of the Republic of Colombia.

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La Guajira Department

La Guajira is a department of Colombia.

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Leticia, Amazonas

Leticia is the southernmost city in the Republic of Colombia, capital of the department of Amazonas, Colombia's southernmost town (4.09° south 69.57° west) and one of the major ports on the Amazon river.

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List of Colombian flags

This is a list of flags used in Colombia.

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List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area

This is an index of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area.

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Lists of country subdivisions

The following articles contain lists of country subdivisions.

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Magdalena Department

Magdalena is a department of Colombia, located to the north of the country by the Caribbean Sea.

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Manizales

Manizales is a city and municipality in central Colombia.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Medellín

Medellín, officially the Municipality of Medellín (Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of the department of Antioquia.

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Meta Department

Meta is a department of Colombia.

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Mitú

Mitú is the capital city of the department of Vaupés in Colombia.

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Mocoa

Mocoa is a municipality and capital city of the department of Putumayo in Colombia.

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Montería

Montería is a municipality and city located in northern Colombia and is the capital of the Department of Córdoba.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the local government of a municipality such as city councils and town councils.

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Municipalities of Colombia

The Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia.

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Municipio

Municipio and município are country subdivisions in Italy and several Hispanophone and Lusophone nations, respectively.

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Nariño Department

Nariño is a department of Colombia named after independence leader Antonio Nariño.

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Neiva, Huila

Neiva is the capital of the Department of Huila.

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Norte de Santander Department

Norte de Santander is a department of the nation of Colombia.

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Panama

Panama (Panamá), officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá), is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.

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Pasto, Colombia

Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto, is the capital of the department of Nariño, in southern Colombia.

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Pereira, Colombia

Pereira is the capital city of the Colombian department of Risaralda.

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Politics of Colombia

The Politics of Colombia take place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Colombia is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

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Popayán

Popayán is the capital of the Colombian department of Cauca.

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Puerto Carreño

Puerto Carreño is the departmental capital, and a municipality, of the department of Vichada in the llanos of Colombia.

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Putumayo Department

Putumayo is a department of Colombia.

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Quibdó

Quibdó is the capital city of Chocó Department, in western Colombia, on the Atrato River.

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Quindío Department

Quindío is a department of Colombia.

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Quito Department

Quito Department was one of the three departments of Gran Colombia until 1824.

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Radical Change

Radical Change (Cambio Radical) is a political party in Colombia.

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Riohacha

Riohacha, Rio Hacha or Rio de la Hacha (River of the Axe or Axeshore - Wayuu: Süchiimma, "Süchii" means river, and "mma" means land, Riverland), is a city in the Riohacha Municipality in the northern Caribbean Region of Colombia by the mouth of the Ranchería River and the Caribbean sea, capital city of the La Guajira Department.

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Risaralda Department

Risaralda is a department of Colombia.

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San Andrés, San Andrés y Providencia

San Andrés is the capital city of the department of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, in Colombia.

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San José del Guaviare

San José del Guaviare is a town and municipality in Colombia, capital of the department of Guaviare by the Guaviare River.

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Santa Marta

Santa Marta, officially Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta ("Touristic, Cultural and Historic District of Santa Marta"), is a city in Colombia.

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Santander Department

Santander is a department of Colombia.

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Sincelejo

Sincelejo is the capital and largest city in the Colombian department of Sucre.

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Social Party of National Unity

The Social Party of National Unity (Partido Social de Unidad Nacional), or Party of the U (Partido de «la U») is a center-left political party in Colombia.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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States of Colombia

States of Colombia existed from February 27, 1855, in the Republic of New Granada and the Granadine Confederation, where they were called "federal states".

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Sucre Department

Sucre is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia.

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Tolima Department

Tolima is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the Andean region, in the center-west of the country.

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Tunja

Tunja is a city on the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, in the region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 130 km northeast of Bogotá.

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Unitary state

A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate.

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Valle del Cauca Department

Valle del Cauca, or Cauca Valley is a department of Colombia.

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Valledupar

Valledupar is a city and municipality in northeastern Colombia.

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Vaupés Department

Vaupés is a department of Colombia in the jungle covered Amazonas Region.

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Venezuela Department (1820)

Venezuela Department was one of the three departments of Gran Colombia until 1824.

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Vichada Department

Vichada Department (Departamento del Vichada) is a department of the Republic of Colombia in South America.

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Villavicencio

Villavicencio is a city and municipality in Colombia.

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Yopal

Yopal is a municipality and capital city of the department of Casanare in Colombia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_Colombia

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