San José Del Palmar
San José del Palmar is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department, Colombia in the central part of the country, 240 km west of the capital Bogotá. San José del Palmar is 1,288 meters above sea level and the population is about 4,800. The terrain around San José del Palmar is mountainous to the east, but to the west it is hilly. The highest point nearby is 1,737 meters above sea level, 1.0 km southeast of San José del Palmar. Around San José del Palmar, it is quite densely populated, with 52 inhabitants per square kilometer. There are no other communities nearby. In the surroundings around San José del Palmar, mainly rainforest grows. Climate San José del Palmar has a tropical rainforest climate with heavy rainfall and warm to very warm, cloudy weather year-round, although the city's altitude means it is less hot and wet than the lowlands of Chocó Department. The general characteristics of the climate approximately coincide with the middle position of in ...
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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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