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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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Mapa De Colombia (+municipios)
Mapa or MAPA may refer to: People * Alec Mapa (born 1965), American actor, comedian and writer * Dennis Mapa (born 1969), Filipino economist and statistician * Jao Mapa (born 1976), Filipino actor * Placido Mapa Jr. (born 1932), Filipino businessman, economist, and government official * Suraj Mapa (born 1980), Sri Lankan actor * Victorino Mapa (1855–1927), Filipino chief justice and government official Other uses * Mapa (song), "Mapa" (song), a 2021 song by SB19 * Mexican American Political Association * Mapa (publisher), an Israeli subsidiary of Ituran * Mapa Group, a Turkish conglomerate * Mapa, a company producing latex gloves that merged with Hutchinson SA in 1973 * Most Affected People and Areas, a climate justice concept See also

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Puerto Arica
Puerto Arica is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Amazonas. History Originally founded by Peruvian refugees from the War of the Pacific, it was awarded to Colombia after the Salomón-Lozano Treaty. These refugees would later resettle in the settlement of the same name in northern Peru. Climate Puerto Arica has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ... ''Af'') with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round. References Municipalities of Amazonas Department {{AmazonasCO-geo-stub ...
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Anorí
Anorí is a town and municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia. It is part of the subregion of Northeastern Antioquia. The cloud forest near Anorí forms the majority of the range of the endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ..., critically endangered chestnut-capped piha. References Municipalities of Antioquia Department {{Antioquia-geo-stub ...
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Angostura, Antioquia
Angostura is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. Part of the subregion of Northern Antioquia Northern Antioquia is a subregion in the Colombian Department of Antioquia. The region is made up of 17 municipalities. Municipalities * Angostura * Belmira * Briceño * Campamento * Carolina del Príncipe * Don Matías * Entrerríos * Gómez .... References Municipalities of Antioquia Department {{Antioquia-geo-stub ...
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Angelópolis
Angelópolis () is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. Part of the subregion of Southwestern Antioquia Southwestern Antioquia is a subregion in the Colombian Department of Antioquia. The region is made up of 24 municipalities and is part of the Colombian Coffee Region. Municipalities * Amagá * Andes * Angelópolis * Betania * Betulia * Cai .... Municipalities of Antioquia Department {{Antioquia-geo-stub ...
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Andes, Antioquia
Andes is a municipality and town in the Antioquia Department, Colombia. Part of the subregion of Southwestern Antioquia. It is located on the western Colombian Andes mountain range. Andes was founded on 13 March 1852 by Pedro Antonio Restrepo Escobar. Its elevation is 1.360 masl with an average temperature of 22 Â°C. The distance reference from Medellín city, the capital of Antioquia Department, is 117 km and it has a total area of 403.42 km2. This town is well known for being the place where Gonzalo Arango Gonzalo Arango Arias (Andes, Antioquia, 1931 – Gachancipá, Cundinamarca, 1976) was a Colombian writer, poet, and journalist. In 1958 he led a modern literary and cultural movement known as Nadaísmo (Nothing-''ism''), inspired by surr ... a writer, philosopher and Antioquian journalist was born. The more significantly source of its economy is agriculture, mainly coffee cultivation. Municipalities of Antioquia Department Populated plac ...
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Amalfi, Antioquia
Amalfi is town and municipality of the Colombian Andes, northern part of the Central Mountain Range in the Antioquia Department and part of the subregion of Northeastern Antioquia. The territory of Amalfi is bordered by the municipalities of Anorí and Segovia at its north; Segovia, Remedios and Vegachí at the east; Vegachí, Yalí, Yolombó and Gómez Plata at the south and Anorí and Guadalupe at the west. The town is served by Amalfi Airport. It has an extension of 91 miles squares, being one of the biggest Antioquean municipalities in extension with a population of 22,088 inhabitants. The county seat has a population of 11,481 inhabitants and it is located in La Víbora Valley, on a mountainous region that is rich in gold and water reserves, attracting settlers since the half of the 19th century from other Antioquean regions, especially Copacabana, Rionegro, La Ceja, Santa Fe de Antioquia, Yarumal and Santa Rosa de Osos, as well as migrants from countries such as Spain ...
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Amagá
Amagá () is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. It is part of the subregion of Southwestern Antioquia. The area was known for its coal and iron ore production and it hosted early iron works. Ex- Colombian president Belisario Betancur Belisario Betancur Cuartas (4 February 1923 – 7 December 2018) was a Colombian politician who served as the 26th President of Colombia from 1982 to 1986. He was a member of the Colombian Conservative Party. His presidency was noted for its at ... was born at this location. Notable places The Forge (La Ferrería) produced the first steel in Antioquia and operated from 1864 to 1931. Its ruins are now a Rural National Monument."Amagà ...
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Alejandría
Alejandría (Spanish for the name Alexandria) is a town and municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia. Part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. Bordered to the north with the municipalities of Concepción, Santo Domingo and San Roque, on the east by the municipality of San Rafael, on the south by the municipalities of San Rafael and Guatapé, and on the west by the municipalities of El Penol and Concepción. Its capital is 90 kilometers from the city of Medellin, the capital of Antioquia department. The municipality has an area of 149 km2. History As is the case with much of eastern Antioquia, what is today Alejandria was originally inhabited by the Tahamí people. Alejandria was founded by Don Alejandro Osorio, Mrs. Procesa Delgado, Don Salvador Cordoba and Mr. Climaco Jaramillo in 1886. By 1889 were erected the village to the township of the municipality category of Guatapé by agreement of February 20 that year. Unlike what happened with almost all t ...
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Abriaquí
Abriaquí is a town and Municipalities of Colombia, municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. Climate Abriaquí has a subtropical highland climate (Cfb) with heavy rainfall year-round. References Regions of Antioquia - Abriaquí yesterday, Abriaquí today
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Abejorral
Abejorral is a town and Municipalities of Colombia, municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. Part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. It borders to the north with the municipalities of Montebello, Antioquia, Montebello, La Ceja, Antioquia, La Ceja and La Unión, Antioquia, La Unión, to the east with municipality of Sonsón, to the south with the department of Caldas Department, Caldas and to the west with the municipalities of Santa Bárbara, Antioquia, Santa Bárbara y Montebello, Antioquia, Montebello. It was founded in 1805 by José Antonio Villegas, although some believe it was in 1811. The latter was the year when the titles of the land were officially donated to the then existing residents. Abejorral is one of the oldest municipalities in the Antioquia Subdivision and Colombia, It is known for its colonial times homes which are part of the Historical National Registry. Its topography is ideal for hiking and cycling activities with beautiful panoramic views of ri ...
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Mapa De Antioquia (político)
Mapa or MAPA may refer to: People * Alec Mapa (born 1965), American actor, comedian and writer * Dennis Mapa (born 1969), Filipino economist and statistician * Jao Mapa (born 1976), Filipino actor * Placido Mapa Jr. (born 1932), Filipino businessman, economist, and government official * Suraj Mapa (born 1980), Sri Lankan actor * Victorino Mapa (1855–1927), Filipino chief justice and government official Other uses * "Mapa" (song), a 2021 song by SB19 * Mexican American Political Association * Mapa (publisher), an Israeli subsidiary of Ituran * Mapa Group, a Turkish conglomerate * Mapa, a company producing latex gloves that merged with Hutchinson SA in 1973 * Most Affected People and Areas, a climate justice concept See also * * Mappa (other) * Mapah (other) Mapah may refer to: * ''Ha-Mapah'' (Hebrew: "the tablecloth"), a commentary on the Shulchan Aruch by Moses Isserles * The Mapah, title of the French mystic Simon Ganneau Simon Ganneau (born circa 180 ...
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