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Departments of Colombia

July 19, 2023

Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and a Capital District (Distrito Capital).[1] Each department has a governor (gobernador) and an Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods. Departments are country subdivisions and are granted a certain degree of autonomy.

Capital district and Colombian regions
Distrito Capital y los Departamentos de Colombia (Spanish)
La Guajira DepartmentMagdalena DepartmentAtlántico DepartmentCesar DepartmentBolívar DepartmentNorte de Santander DepartmentSucre DepartmentCórdoba DepartmentSantander DepartmentAntioquia DepartmentBoyacá DepartmentArauca DepartmentChocó DepartmentCaldas DepartmentCundinamarca DepartmentCasanare DepartmentVichada DepartmentValle del Cauca DepartmentTolima DepartmentMeta DepartmentHuila DepartmentGuainía DepartmentGuaviare DepartmentCauca DepartmentVaupés DepartmentNariño DepartmentCaquetá DepartmentPutumayo DepartmentAmazonas DepartmentRisaralda DepartmentRisaralda DepartmentQuindío DepartmentQuindío DepartmentBogotáBogotáArchipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
CategoryUnitary state
LocationRepublic of Colombia
Number32 Departments
1 Capital District
Populations47,000 (Vaupés) – 7,430,000 (Capital District)
Areas50 km2 (19.3 sq mi) (San Andrés) – 109,665.0 km2 (42,341.89 sq mi) (Amazonas)
Government
Subdivisions

Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities (municipios, sing. municipio). Municipal government is headed by mayor (alcalde) and administered by a municipal council (concejo municipal), both of which are elected for four-year periods.

Some departments have subdivisions above the level of municipalities, commonly known as provinces.

Chart of departments

Each one of the departments of Colombia in the map below links to a corresponding article. Current governors serving four-year terms from 2015 to 2019 are also shown, along with their respective political party or coalition.

ID Region Governor Party Capital Area (km²) Population (December 2022) Density per
km2		 Established Flag Code
00 Capital District Claudia López Hernández Green Bogotá 1,587 7,430,000 4670.80 1538   DC
01 Amazonas Jesús Galindo Cedeño Coalición 'Juntos por el Amazonas' Leticia 109,665 84,000 0.7 1991   AM
02 Antioquia Aníbal Gaviria Coalición 'Es el Momento de Antioquia' Medellín 63,612 6,424,000 100.72 1826   AN
03 Arauca José Facundo Castillo Coalición 'Unidos por Arauca' Arauca 23,818 276,000 11.01 1991   AR
04 Atlántico Elsa Noguera Coalición 'La Clave es la Gente' Barranquilla 3,388 2,546,000 748.38 1910   AT
05 Bolívar Vicente Antonio Blel Conservative Cartagena 25,978 2,105,000 79.69 1857   BL
06 Boyacá Ramiro Barragán Adame Green Tunja 23,189 1,228,000 52.50 1539   BY
07 Caldas Luis Carlos Velásquez Coalición 'Unidos por Caldas' Manizales 7,888 1,012,000 126.55 1905   CL
08 Caquetá Arnulfo Gasca Trujillo Conservative Florencia 88,965 413,000 4.52 1982   CQ
09 Casanare Salomón Andrés Sanabria CD Yopal 44,640 434,000 9.42 1991   CS
10 Cauca Elías Larrahondo Carabalí Coalición 'Porque Sí es Posible' Popayán 29,308 1,479,000 49.97 1857   CA
11 Cesar Luis Alberto Monsalvo Gnecco Coalición 'Alianza por el Cesar' Valledupar 22,905 1,226,000 52.42 1967   CE
12 Chocó Ariel Palacios Calderón Coalición 'Generando Confianza por un Mejor Chocó' Quibdó 46,530 550,000 11.49 1947   CH
13 Córdoba Orlando David Benítez Liberal Montería 25,020 1,801,000 71.33 1952   CO
14 Cundinamarca Nicolás García Bustos Coalición 'Gran Cundinamarca' Bogotá 24,210 2,930,000 120.57 1857   CU
15 Guainía Juan Carlos Iral Gómez De La U Inirida 72,238 50,000 0.67 1963   GN
16 Guaviare Heydeer Yovanny Palacio CR San José del Guaviare   53,460 103,000 1.55 1991   GV
17 Huila Luis Enrique Dussán Coalición 'Huila Crece' Neiva 19,890 1,113,000 55.32 1905   HU
18 La Guajira Nemesio Roys Garzón Coalición 'Un Cambio por La Guajira' Riohacha 20,848 902,000 42.24 1965   LG
19 Magdalena Carlos Caicedo G.S.C. Fuerza Ciudadana - Magdalena Santa Marta 23,188 1,352,000 57.86 1824   MA
20 Meta Juan Guillermo Zuluaga De La U Villavicencio 85,635 1,052,000 12.14 1960   ME
21 Nariño Jhon Alexander Rojas Coalición 'Mi Nariño' Pasto 33,268 1,654,000 49.01 1904   NA
22 Norte de Santander Silvano Serrano Guerrero Conservative Cúcuta 21,658 1,504,000 68.87 1910   NS
23 Putumayo Buanerges Rosero Coalición 'Así es el Putumayo, Tierra de Paz' Mocoa 24,885 360,000 13.99 1991   PU
24 Quindío Roberto Jairo Jaramillo Liberal Armenia 1,845 546,000 292.63 1966   QD
25 Risaralda Sigifredo Salazar Osorio Conservative Pereira 4,140 953,000 227.87 1966   RI
26 San Andrés y Providencia   Everth Julio Hawkins Coalición 'Todos por un Nuevo Comienzo' San Andrés 52 70,000 1178.46 1991   SA
27 Santander Mauricio Aguilar Coalición 'Siempre Santander' Bucaramanga 30,537 2,204,000 71.55 1857   ST
28 Sucre Héctor Olimpo Espinosa Liberal Sincelejo 10,917 915,000 82.89 1966   SU
29 Tolima José Ricardo Orozco Conservative Ibagué 23,562 1,345,000 56.45 1886   TO
30 Valle del Cauca Clara Luz Roldán Coalición 'Todos por el Valle del Cauca' Cali 22,140 4,503,000 202.16 1910   VC
31 Vaupés Elícer Pérez CD Mitú 54,135 47,000 0.75 1991   VP
32 Vichada Álvaro Arley León Coalición 'Álvaro León Sabe Como Es' Puerto Carreño 100,242 115,000 1.08 1991   VD

Indigenous territories

Main article: Indigenous territory (Colombia)

The indigenous territories are at the third level of administrative division in Colombia, as are the municipalities. Indigenous territories are created by agreement between the government and indigenous communities. In cases where indigenous territories cover more than one department or municipality, local governments jointly administer them with the indigenous councils, as set out in Articles 329 and 330 of the Colombian Constitution of 1991. Also indigenous territories may achieve local autonomy if they meet the requirements of the law.

Article 329 of the 1991 constitution recognizes the collective indigenous ownership of indigenous territories and repeats that are inalienable. Law 160 of 1994 created the National System of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development Campesino, and replaced Law 135 of 1961 on Agrarian Social Reform; it establishes and sets out the functions of INCORA, one of the most important being to declare which territories will acquire the status of indigenous protection and what extension of existing ones will be allowed. Decree 2164 of 1995 interprets Law 160 of 1994, providing, among other things, a legal definition of indigenous territories.[2]

Indigenous territories in Colombia are mostly in the departments of Amazonas, Cauca, La Guajira, Guaviare, and Vaupés.[1]

History

The Republic of Gran Colombia

Main article: Subdivisions of Gran Colombia

When it was first established in 1819, The Republic of Gran Colombia had three departments. Venezuela, Cundinamarca (now Colombia) and Quito (now Ecuador).[3] In 1824, the Distrito del Centro (which became Colombia) was divided into five departments and further divided into seventeen provinces. One department, Istmo Department, consisting of two provinces, later became Panama.[4]

Republic of New Granada

Main article: Republic of New Granada

With the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1826 by the Revolution of the Morrocoyes (La Cosiata), New Granada kept its 17 provinces. In 1832 the provinces of Vélez and Barbacoas were created, and in 1835 those of Buenaventura and Pasto were added. In 1843 those of Cauca, Mompós and Túquerres were created. At this time the cantons (cantones) and parish districts were created, which provided the basis for the present-day municipalities.[4][5]

By 1853 the number of provinces had increased to thirty-six, namely:Antioquia, Azuero, Barbacoas, Bogotá, Buenaventura, Cartagena, Casanare, Cauca, Chiriquí, Chocó, Córdova, Cundinamarca, García Rovira, Mariquita, Medellín, Mompós, Neiva, Ocaña, Pamplona, Panamá, Pasto, Popayán, Riohacha, Sabanilla, Santa Marta, Santander, Socorro, Soto, Tequendama, Tunja, Tundama, Túquerres, Valle de Upar, Veraguas, Vélez and Zipaquirá.[5] However, the new constitution of 1853 introduced federalism, which lead to the consolidation of provinces into states. By 1858 this process was complete, with a resulting eight federal states: Panamá was formed in 1855, Antioquia in 1856, Santander in May 1857, and Bolívar, Boyacá, Cauca, Cundinamarca and Magdalena were formed in June 1858. 1861 saw the creation of the final federal state of Tolima.[6]

Republic of Colombia

The Colombian Constitution of 1886 converted the states of Colombia into departments, with the state presidents renamed as governors. The states formed the following original departments:

Maps gallery

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    Departments of Colombia with municipalities

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    Map with numbered departments

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    Departments of Colombia with names

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    Political map of Colombia

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    Topography of Colombia, highly variable per department

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in Spanish). Portal ColombiaYA.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009.
  2. ^ Decree 2164 of 1995 provides "Reserva Indígena. Es un globo de terreno baldío ocupado por una o varias comunidades indígenas que fué delimitado y legalmente asignado por el INCORA a aquellas para que ejerzan en él los derechos de uso y usufructo con exclusión de terceros. Las reservas indígenas constituyen tierras comunales de grupos étnicos, para los fines previstos en el artículo 63 de la Constitución Política y la ley 21 de 1991. […] Territorios Indígenas. Son las áreas poseidas en forma regular y permanente por una comunidad, parcialidad o grupo indígena y aquellas que, aunque no se encuentren poseidas en esa forma, constituyen el ámbito tradicional de sus actividades sociales, económicas y culturales. " Art. 21: "Los resguardos son una institución legal y sociopolítica de carácter especial, conformada por una o más comunidades indígenas, que con un título de propiedad colectiva que goza de las garantías de la propiedad privada, poseen su territorio y se rigen para el manejo de éste y su vida interna por una organización autónoma amparada por el fuero indígena y su sistema normativo propio."
  3. ^ Guhl Nannetti, Ernesto (1991). "Capítulo XII: División Política de la Gran Colombia". Las fronteras políticas y los límites naturales: escritos geograficos [Political Boundaries and Their Natural Limits: Geographic writings] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Fondo FEN. ISBN 978-958-9129-22-7.
  4. ^ a b Aguilera Peña, Mario (January 2002). "División política administrativa de Colombia". Credential Historia (in Spanish). Bogotá: Banco de la República. from the original on 16 February 2011.
  5. ^ a b Oficina Nacional de Estadística (Office of National Statistics) (1876). "Estadística de Colombia" [Colombian Statistics] (PDF) (in Spanish). Bogotá: Oficina Nacional de Estadística. Retrieved 23 November 2016.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ Domínguez, Camilo; Chaparro, Jeffer; Gómez, Carla (2006). "Construcción y deconstrucción territorial del Caribe Colombiano durante el siglo XIX". Scripta Nova (Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales). 10 (218 (75)).

External links

  • (in French) List of Colombian department governors
  • "Departments of Colombia". Statoids.

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This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations March 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty two departments Spanish departamentos sing departamento and a Capital District Distrito Capital 1 Each department has a governor gobernador and an Assembly Asamblea Departamental elected by popular vote for a four year period The governor cannot be re elected in consecutive periods Departments are country subdivisions and are granted a certain degree of autonomy Capital district and Colombian regionsDistrito Capital y los Departamentos de Colombia Spanish CategoryUnitary stateLocationRepublic of ColombiaNumber32 Departments1 Capital DistrictPopulations47 000 Vaupes 7 430 000 Capital District Areas50 km2 19 3 sq mi San Andres 109 665 0 km2 42 341 89 sq mi Amazonas GovernmentDepartment government national governmentSubdivisionsProvince municipalityDepartments are formed by a grouping of municipalities municipios sing municipio Municipal government is headed by mayor alcalde and administered by a municipal council concejo municipal both of which are elected for four year periods Some departments have subdivisions above the level of municipalities commonly known as provinces Contents 1 Chart of departments 1 1 Indigenous territories 2 History 2 1 The Republic of Gran Colombia 2 2 Republic of New Granada 2 3 Republic of Colombia 3 Maps gallery 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksChart of departments EditEach one of the departments of Colombia in the map below links to a corresponding article Current governors serving four year terms from 2015 to 2019 are also shown along with their respective political party or coalition ID Region Governor Party Capital Area km Population December 2022 Density perkm2 Established Flag Code00 Capital District Claudia Lopez Hernandez Green Bogota 1 587 7 430 000 4670 80 1538 DC01 Amazonas Jesus Galindo Cedeno Coalicion Juntos por el Amazonas Leticia 109 665 84 000 0 7 1991 AM02 Antioquia Anibal Gaviria Coalicion Es el Momento de Antioquia Medellin 63 612 6 424 000 100 72 1826 AN03 Arauca Jose Facundo Castillo Coalicion Unidos por Arauca Arauca 23 818 276 000 11 01 1991 AR04 Atlantico Elsa Noguera Coalicion La Clave es la Gente Barranquilla 3 388 2 546 000 748 38 1910 AT05 Bolivar Vicente Antonio Blel Conservative Cartagena 25 978 2 105 000 79 69 1857 BL06 Boyaca Ramiro Barragan Adame Green Tunja 23 189 1 228 000 52 50 1539 BY07 Caldas Luis Carlos Velasquez Coalicion Unidos por Caldas Manizales 7 888 1 012 000 126 55 1905 CL08 Caqueta Arnulfo Gasca Trujillo Conservative Florencia 88 965 413 000 4 52 1982 CQ09 Casanare Salomon Andres Sanabria CD Yopal 44 640 434 000 9 42 1991 CS10 Cauca Elias Larrahondo Carabali Coalicion Porque Si es Posible Popayan 29 308 1 479 000 49 97 1857 CA11 Cesar Luis Alberto Monsalvo Gnecco Coalicion Alianza por el Cesar Valledupar 22 905 1 226 000 52 42 1967 CE12 Choco Ariel Palacios Calderon Coalicion Generando Confianza por un Mejor Choco Quibdo 46 530 550 000 11 49 1947 CH13 Cordoba Orlando David Benitez Liberal Monteria 25 020 1 801 000 71 33 1952 CO14 Cundinamarca Nicolas Garcia Bustos Coalicion Gran Cundinamarca Bogota 24 210 2 930 000 120 57 1857 CU15 Guainia Juan Carlos Iral Gomez De La U Inirida 72 238 50 000 0 67 1963 GN16 Guaviare Heydeer Yovanny Palacio CR San Jose del Guaviare 53 460 103 000 1 55 1991 GV17 Huila Luis Enrique Dussan Coalicion Huila Crece Neiva 19 890 1 113 000 55 32 1905 HU18 La Guajira Nemesio Roys Garzon Coalicion Un Cambio por La Guajira Riohacha 20 848 902 000 42 24 1965 LG19 Magdalena Carlos Caicedo G S C Fuerza Ciudadana Magdalena Santa Marta 23 188 1 352 000 57 86 1824 MA20 Meta Juan Guillermo Zuluaga De La U Villavicencio 85 635 1 052 000 12 14 1960 ME21 Narino Jhon Alexander Rojas Coalicion Mi Narino Pasto 33 268 1 654 000 49 01 1904 NA22 Norte de Santander Silvano Serrano Guerrero Conservative Cucuta 21 658 1 504 000 68 87 1910 NS23 Putumayo Buanerges Rosero Coalicion Asi es el Putumayo Tierra de Paz Mocoa 24 885 360 000 13 99 1991 PU24 Quindio Roberto Jairo Jaramillo Liberal Armenia 1 845 546 000 292 63 1966 QD25 Risaralda Sigifredo Salazar Osorio Conservative Pereira 4 140 953 000 227 87 1966 RI26 San Andres y Providencia Everth Julio Hawkins Coalicion Todos por un Nuevo Comienzo San Andres 52 70 000 1178 46 1991 SA27 Santander Mauricio Aguilar Coalicion Siempre Santander Bucaramanga 30 537 2 204 000 71 55 1857 ST28 Sucre Hector Olimpo Espinosa Liberal Sincelejo 10 917 915 000 82 89 1966 SU29 Tolima Jose Ricardo Orozco Conservative Ibague 23 562 1 345 000 56 45 1886 TO30 Valle del Cauca Clara Luz Roldan Coalicion Todos por el Valle del Cauca Cali 22 140 4 503 000 202 16 1910 VC31 Vaupes Elicer Perez CD Mitu 54 135 47 000 0 75 1991 VP32 Vichada Alvaro Arley Leon Coalicion Alvaro Leon Sabe Como Es Puerto Carreno 100 242 115 000 1 08 1991 VDIndigenous territories Edit Main article Indigenous territory Colombia The indigenous territories are at the third level of administrative division in Colombia as are the municipalities Indigenous territories are created by agreement between the government and indigenous communities In cases where indigenous territories cover more than one department or municipality local governments jointly administer them with the indigenous councils as set out in Articles 329 and 330 of the Colombian Constitution of 1991 Also indigenous territories may achieve local autonomy if they meet the requirements of the law Article 329 of the 1991 constitution recognizes the collective indigenous ownership of indigenous territories and repeats that are inalienable Law 160 of 1994 created the National System of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development Campesino and replaced Law 135 of 1961 on Agrarian Social Reform it establishes and sets out the functions of INCORA one of the most important being to declare which territories will acquire the status of indigenous protection and what extension of existing ones will be allowed Decree 2164 of 1995 interprets Law 160 of 1994 providing among other things a legal definition of indigenous territories 2 Indigenous territories in Colombia are mostly in the departments of Amazonas Cauca La Guajira Guaviare and Vaupes 1 History EditThe Republic of Gran Colombia Edit Main article Subdivisions of Gran Colombia When it was first established in 1819 The Republic of Gran Colombia had three departments Venezuela Cundinamarca now Colombia and Quito now Ecuador 3 In 1824 the Distrito del Centro which became Colombia was divided into five departments and further divided into seventeen provinces One department Istmo Department consisting of two provinces later became Panama 4 Republic of New Granada Edit Main article Republic of New Granada With the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1826 by the Revolution of the Morrocoyes La Cosiata New Granada kept its 17 provinces In 1832 the provinces of Velez and Barbacoas were created and in 1835 those of Buenaventura and Pasto were added In 1843 those of Cauca Mompos and Tuquerres were created At this time the cantons cantones and parish districts were created which provided the basis for the present day municipalities 4 5 By 1853 the number of provinces had increased to thirty six namely Antioquia Azuero Barbacoas Bogota Buenaventura Cartagena Casanare Cauca Chiriqui Choco Cordova Cundinamarca Garcia Rovira Mariquita Medellin Mompos Neiva Ocana Pamplona Panama Pasto Popayan Riohacha Sabanilla Santa Marta Santander Socorro Soto Tequendama Tunja Tundama Tuquerres Valle de Upar Veraguas Velez and Zipaquira 5 However the new constitution of 1853 introduced federalism which lead to the consolidation of provinces into states By 1858 this process was complete with a resulting eight federal states Panama was formed in 1855 Antioquia in 1856 Santander in May 1857 and Bolivar Boyaca Cauca Cundinamarca and Magdalena were formed in June 1858 1861 saw the creation of the final federal state of Tolima 6 Republic of Colombia Edit The Colombian Constitution of 1886 converted the states of Colombia into departments with the state presidents renamed as governors The states formed the following original departments Antioquia Department Bolivar Department Boyaca Department Cauca Department Cundinamarca Department Magdalena Department Panama Department Santander Department Tolima DepartmentMaps gallery Edit Departments of Colombia with municipalities Map with numbered departments Departments of Colombia with names Political map of Colombia Topography of Colombia highly variable per departmentSee also Edit Colombia portalISO 3166 2 CO List of Colombian flags List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area States of Colombia List of Colombian departments by Human Development IndexReferences Edit a b Division Politica de Colombia in Spanish Portal ColombiaYA com Archived from the original on 10 March 2009 Decree 2164 of 1995 provides Reserva Indigena Es un globo de terreno baldio ocupado por una o varias comunidades indigenas que fue delimitado y legalmente asignado por el INCORA a aquellas para que ejerzan en el los derechos de uso y usufructo con exclusion de terceros Las reservas indigenas constituyen tierras comunales de grupos etnicos para los fines previstos en el articulo 63 de la Constitucion Politica y la ley 21 de 1991 Territorios Indigenas Son las areas poseidas en forma regular y permanente por una comunidad parcialidad o grupo indigena y aquellas que aunque no se encuentren poseidas en esa forma constituyen el ambito tradicional de sus actividades sociales economicas y culturales Art 21 Los resguardos son una institucion legal y sociopolitica de caracter especial conformada por una o mas comunidades indigenas que con un titulo de propiedad colectiva que goza de las garantias de la propiedad privada poseen su territorio y se rigen para el manejo de este y su vida interna por una organizacion autonoma amparada por el fuero indigena y su sistema normativo propio Guhl Nannetti Ernesto 1991 Capitulo XII Division Politica de la Gran Colombia Las fronteras politicas y los limites naturales escritos geograficos Political Boundaries and Their Natural Limits Geographic writings in Spanish Bogota Fondo FEN ISBN 978 958 9129 22 7 a b Aguilera Pena Mario January 2002 Division politica administrativa de Colombia Credential Historia in Spanish Bogota Banco de la Republica Archived from the original on 16 February 2011 a b Oficina Nacional de Estadistica Office of National Statistics 1876 Estadistica de Colombia Colombian Statistics PDF in Spanish Bogota Oficina Nacional de Estadistica Retrieved 23 November 2016 permanent dead link Dominguez Camilo Chaparro Jeffer Gomez Carla 2006 Construccion y deconstruccion territorial del Caribe Colombiano durante el siglo XIX Scripta Nova Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales 10 218 75 External links Edit in French List of Colombian department governors Departments of Colombia Statoids Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Departments of Colombia amp oldid 1165740210, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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