Cerrito, Santander
Cerrito is a Colombian municipality in the Santander Department located in the province of García Rovira in northeastern Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car .... It is noted for its natural environment and for having emblematic places of the department such as the chapel of Jesus Nazareno and the ruins of a Spanish seminary in the village of Servitá. History In 1772, the population of Servitá was linked to the parish of Concepción. The inhabitants of the site "Aposentos del Cerrito", found it difficult to access the spiritual administration because the church of the new parish to which they had been attached was very far away, so the foundation of the municipality was approved in 1775 by the viceroy Manuel Guirior, in response to a community petition from ...
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Municipalities Of Colombia
The Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia with 1,122 municipalities (''municipios''). Each one of them is led by a mayor (''alcalde'') elected by popular vote and represents the maximum executive government official at a municipality level under the mandate of the governor of their department which is a representative of all municipalities in the department; municipalities are grouped to form departments. The municipalities of Colombia are also grouped in an association called the ''Federación Colombiana de Municipios'' (Colombian Federation of Municipalities), which functions as a union under the private law and under the constitutional right to free association to defend their common interests. Categories Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 Article 7 http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=48267 the mu ...
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Departments Of Colombia
Colombia is a unitary state, unitary republic made up of thirty-two departments (Spanish language, Spanish: ''departamentos'', sing. ''departamento'') and a Capital District (''Capital districts and territories, Distrito Capital''). 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 administrative division, country subdivisions and are granted a certain degree of autonomy. Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities of Colombia, 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 of Colombia, provinces. Chart of departments Each one of th ...
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Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments and the Capital District of Bogotá, the country's largest city. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi), and has a population of 52 million. Colombia's cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a Spanish colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by enslaved Africans, as well as with those of the various Amerindian civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is th ...
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Cuchilla Mesa Colorada, Páramo Almorzadero
Cuchilla (plural: cuchillas), Spanish for ''blade'' or ''hill covered by grasslands'' (in the Pampas of Uruguay and Argentina) may refer to: * Cuchilla Alta, a seaside resort in Canelones in Montevideo in Uruguay * Cuchilla de Caraguatá, a range of hills in Uruguay * Cuchilla Grande Inferior, a hill range in Uruguay * Cuchilla Grande, a hill range in Uruguay * Cuchillas del Toa, a biosphere reserve in Cuba * Cuchillas, Corozal, Puerto Rico, a barrio in Puerto Rico * Cuchillas, Moca, Puerto Rico, a barrio in Puerto Rico * Cuchillas, Morovis, Puerto Rico Cuchillas (''Barrio Cuchillas'') is a rural barrio in the municipality of Morovis, Puerto Rico. Cuchillas has fourteen sectors and its population in 2010 was 2,333. History Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–America ...