Colombia

INTRODUCTION
Beaches in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Happy music, art and energy world-famous street festivals. Ancient cities and historical cobbled streets, attractive places and colonial architecture. A country with a friendly spirit and people hot. This is the modern Colombia.
From the famous coffee plantations and the highlands to the panting Amazon jagged peaks of the mountains and icygreen of the Andes, Colombia is a country of vast natural resources.
The country was named after the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus. From the moment he set foot on their land, Colombia has been delighted to have multiple personalities, intensified by a mixture of European cultures, Asian, Latin American and African.
Despite centuries of struggle and an international reputation persistentinternal conflicts related to the Colombia of today is a rising star and is now a preferred destination for tourists from around the world.
Although poverty is extreme in some places, there is a growing middle class in the country. In a recent survey by the University of Michigan, found that Colombians are among the happiest people in the world.

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CHOSE A COUNTRYCOUNTRY: República de Colombia
CAPITAL: Bogotá
CURRENCY: Peso Colombiano ($)
LANGUAGE: Spanish (Castilian)
FLAG COLORS: Yellow, Blue and Red
INDEPENDENCE DAY: Independence of Spain
Declared: July 20, 1810
Defined: August 7, 1819
BORDERS: Colombia has 6,342 km of land borders, and additionally, has maritime borders in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. Itsland borders land on 5 countries: Venezuela and Brazil to the east, Ecuador and Peru to the south and Panama to the northwest. Maritime borders are slightly larger: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Panama, Venezuela and Jamaica in the Caribbean, Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica in the Pacific.
MOTTO: "Homeland, honor, loyalty"
RELIGION: Although Colombia's 1991constitution guarantees freedom of worship and equality of all faiths before the law and does not represent any official religion, the predominant religion is Christianity in Colombia and the main predominant religion is Catholicism (Latin Rite), with up to 93% of the population that is declared as such or registered as Catholics, even within the same population can be counted indifferent religiousgroups. These figures take into account the percentage of baptized Catholics who do not necessarily reflect the number of believers. The remaining 7% is part of Protestant denominations, mainly from current American evangelical, Pentecostal and Neo and a small portion of the historic Christian churches other than Catholic (Presbyterian, Episcopal or Anglican, Baptist, Mennonite, Methodist). Theevangelical church with more members is the United Pentecostal Church of Colombia, with over 3000 congregations and presence in all departments. Another part of the population belong to religions such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists, Mormons, Unitarian Universalists. There are also small representations of the other great monotheistic religions: Muslims and Jews, as well as sects and groups ofBuddhist and Taoist origin. In the indigenous and Afro-American generally assumed to be Catholic, you can find ancient practices of each of the towns that make up, often in syncretism with Christianity and exceptionally isolated. Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, also known as Cathedral of Colombia.
Until the 1991 constitution, Catholic Christianity the officialreligion of the state, the country was consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and repeatedly reporters and opinion columnists use that fact to refer to the "country of the Sacred Heart."
Today it has opened the possibility for a wide variety of beliefs, including atheists activity in 2001 conducted in Bogota, the First World Congress of Atheists.
TOURISTIC ZONE: For many years, the internal...