Colombia Destinations Travel Guide
Language: Spanish
Currency: Peso (COP)
Calling Code: +57
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is
a sovereign country located in the northwestern region of South
America that is constituted in a unitary, social and democratic
state of law whose form of government is presidential. It is a
republic that is politically organized in 32 decentralized
departments and the capital District of Bogotá, seat of the national
government.
Including Malpelo Island, Roncador Cay and
Serrana Bank, the country covers an area of 1,141,748 km², making
it the twenty-sixth largest country in the world and the seventh
largest in the Americas. It claims as territorial sea the area up to
12 nautical miles away, maintaining a border dispute with Venezuela
and Nicaragua. It limits to the East with Venezuela and Brazil, to
the South with Peru and Ecuador and to the Northwest with Panama; in
terms of maritime limits, it borders Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela in
the Caribbean Sea, and with Panama, Costa Rica and Ecuador in the
Pacific Ocean.
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Amacayacu National Park is a nature reserve situated in the Amazonas Department in the Southern Colombia. It covers a total area of 2,935 sq km. |
Cueva de los Guácharos is an underground system situated in Huila and Caqueta Provinces. It is protected by Cueva de los Guácharos National Park. |
Los Estoraques Unique Natural Area Los Estoraques Unique Natural Area is a protected area with natural geologic formations in the Cordillera Oriental mountain range. |
Los Nevados National Natural Park is a nature reserve situated in the Cordillera Central of the Colombian Andes in the Quindío and Tolima departments. |
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Serranía de la Macarena or Macarena mountains are covered by virgin forest is protected by La Macarena National Park. |
Sumaraz Paramo or Páramo de Sumapaz is an unique biosphere located in a Altiplano Cundiboyacense mountain range in the Cundinamarca Department. |