Category: Colombia

Categories: South America | Latin America

Name: Colombia
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Colombia is one of the 20 Latin American nations. Officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia), it is a country situated in the northwest of South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and sharing maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprised of thirty-two departments.

Independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 "Gran Colombia" had collapsed with the secession of Venezuela and Ecuador. What are now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada. The new nation experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation (1858), and then the United States of Colombia (1863), before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Panama seceded in 1903.

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Living Aspirilla
19 Apr 1932 Medellín, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia - 15 Sep 2023 photo
15 Apr 1884 Sabanalarga, Atlántico, Colombia - 15 Oct 1975 photo
abt 1798 Santander, Colombia
Living Mendoza Murillo
Living Santamaria Camacho
1935 Medellín, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia - 2019
15 Apr 1905 Bogotá, Colombia - 08 Feb 1989




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