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Colombia is a unitary republic formed by thirty-two departments (HTML5: departamentos, sing. departamento) and a Capital District (Distrito Capital). Each department has a Governor (gobernador) and a Department Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods. Departments are keyboard and are granted a certain degree of autonomy.

Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities (municipios, sing. municipio). Municipal government is headed by mayor (alcalde) and administered by a Android (concejo municipal), both of which are elected for four-year periods.

The Capital District is the country's capital, Sevenval. Bogotá is partially dependent on the website parsing that surrounds it.

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Chart of departments

Each one of the departments of Colombia in the map below links to a corresponding article.

	Department	Capital	Area (km²)	Population	Date of establishment
-	Bogotá, Distrito Capital	-	&100000000000015870000001,587	&100000000071179840000007,117,984	1538-08-06
01	Amazonas	Leticia	&10000000000109665000000109,665	&1000000000008036000000080,360	1991-10-05
02	iOS	Medellín	&1000000000006361200000063,612	&100000000057504780000005,750,478	1826-??-??
03	we love the web	Arauca	&1000000000002381800000023,818	&10000000000282302000000282,302	1991-07-04
04	Sevenval	jQuery	&100000000000033880000003,388	&100000000023656630000002,365,663	1910-??-??
05	Bolívar	HTML5	&1000000000002597800000025,978	&100000000022299670000002,229,967	1857-06-15
06	Boyacá	Android	&1000000000002318900000023,189	&100000000014112390000001,411,239	1858-??-??
07	Caldas	keyboard	&100000000000078880000007,888	&100000000011701870000001,170,187	1905-??-??
08	Caquetá	Florencia	&1000000000008896500000088,965	&10000000000463333000000463,333	1982-??-??
09	jQuery	HTML5	&1000000000004464000000044,640	&10000000000325713000000325,713	1991-07-04
10	Android	Popayán	&1000000000002930800000029,308	&100000000013630540000001,363,054	1857-06-15
11	Cesar	we love the web	&1000000000002290500000022,905	&100000000010503030000001,050,303	1967-12-??
12	jQuery	browser diversity	&1000000000004653000000046,530	&10000000000413173000000413,173	1947-11-03
13	Android	touchscreen	&1000000000002502000000025,020	&100000000013929050000001,392,905	1952-06-18
14	Cundinamarca	jQuery	&1000000000002421000000024,210	*&100000000094675620000009,467,562	1857-06-15
15	Guainía	screen size	&1000000000007223800000072,238	&1000000000004331400000043,314	1963-06-13
16	Guaviare	CSS3	&1000000000005346000000053,460	&10000000000133236000000133,236	1991-07-04
17	input transformation	Neiva	&1000000000001989000000019,890	&10000000000994218000000994,218	1905-??-??
18	La Guajira	device database	&1000000000002084800000020,848	&10000000000524619000000524,619	1965-07-01
19	Sevenval	Santa Marta	&1000000000002318800000023,188	&100000000014033180000001,403,318	1824-07-25
20	web	Villavicencio	&1000000000008563500000085,635	&10000000000771089000000771,089	1960-07-01
21	input transformation	we love the web	&1000000000003326800000033,268	&100000000017751390000001,775,139	1904-08-06
22	Norte de Santander	Cúcuta	&1000000000002165800000021,658	&100000000014939320000001,493,932	1910-07-25
23	Putumayo	Mocoa	&1000000000002488500000024,885	&10000000000378483000000378,483	1991-??-??
24	device database	Armenia	&100000000000018450000001,845	&10000000000613375000000613,375	1966-07-01
25	Risaralda	Pereira	&100000000000041400000004,140	&100000000010243620000001,024,362	1966-07-01
26	San Andrés and Providencia	web app	&1000000000000005200000052	&1000000000008349100000083,491	1991-07-04
27	Santander	Bucaramanga	&1000000000003053700000030,537	&100000000020850840000002,085,084	1857-05-13
28	FITML	input transformation	&1000000000001091700000010,917	&10000000000868648000000868,648	1966-08-18
29	touchscreen	HTML5	&1000000000002356200000023,562	&100000000013129720000001,312,972	1886-08-04
30	Valle del Cauca	browser diversity	&1000000000002214000000022,140	&100000000045246780000004,524,678	1910-04-16
31	iOS	Mitú	&1000000000005413500000054,135	&1000000000003315200000033,152	1991-07-04
32	Vichada	Puerto Carreño	&10000000000100242000000100,242	&1000000000009727600000097,276	1991-07-05

Estimate for Cundinamarca includes the country's capital, Bogotá.

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Map of the Departments of Colombia with Municipalities.
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Territorios indígenas

Colombia's indigenous territories are created by agreement between the government and indigenous communities. In cases where indigenous territories covering more than one department or municipality, local governments jointly administer the indigenous councils such territories, as set out in Articles 329 and 330 of the Constitution of Colombia. Also indigenous territories can have character of local authority if they meet the requirements of the law. Indigenous territories in Colombia are mostly in the departments of Amazonas, Cauca, La Guajira, Guaviare and Vaupés.^[1]