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Colombia or Republic of Colombia, as its formal name reads, is a Nation located in the northwestern region of South America on the American continent. The total area of ​​this country is 2,070,408 square kilometers, being Venezuela and Brazil to the east, Peru and Ecuador to the south and Panama to the northwest the countries with which it limits its territory. One of the peculiarities of his geography is that it is the only country in South America that has a coastline in both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, in which, In addition, it has several islands, the archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia being the best known and most visited by the tourism.

Regarding the population density that it has, Colombia, undoubtedly It is one of the most populated countries in the American continent, since according to statistics, Colombia occupies the third place in the population ranking corresponding to Latin America.

Just as Argentina stands out for its meat and tango, Brazil for its eccentric and multitudinous carnivals,

On the other hand, the origin of its name is found in precisely the discoverer of the continent, Christopher Columbus, being the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda who arranged the same in homage to the explorer and in what Regarding the origins of their civilization, it is estimated that it began to develop between the years 11,000 and 20,000 before of Christ.

According to its Constitution National, Colombia is a Social State of Right, organized in the form of a unitary republic with centralization politics but decentralization when it comes to administrative matters. Power, as it happens in the republics, is divided into three powers, executive, legislative and judicial.Furthermore, various bodies that assume the role of control, such as the Attorney General's Office, the Attorney General's Office, the Comptroller's Office, and the Citizen Oversight Offices. The Executive power, for his part, is embodied in the president, who happens to be head of government and state at the same time. The House of Representatives and the Senate constitute what is called the Legislative power and the Judicial Power is represented by the Supreme Court of Justice, the Constitutional Court and the Council of State.

Administratively, Colombia, It is made up of 32 departments and a single capital district embodied in the city of Bogotá.

On the other hand and unfortunately, in recent decades and regardless of the political color that is in the government, Colombia, has been seriously affected by the violence as a consequence of the establishment of dangerous drug cartels in its territory and also due to the illegal and violent actions of the guerrillas, embodied in the Armed Forces Revolutionaries of Colombia, better known as the FARC and which has been responsible for countless political kidnappings that have had a huge worldwide impact, such is the case of the Former candidate for president Ingrid Betancourt, who was released a short time ago after spending more than six years in captivity in the Colombian jungle, to name one of the most representative.