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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.[1]

Categories

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Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 [2] the municipalities have the categories listed below:

Category Population more than Revenues ICLD (in monthly minimum wages)
Especial category: 500,001 inhabitants 400,000 and over
First category: 100,001 - 500,000 100,000 - 400,000
Second category: 50,001 - 100,000 50,000 - 100,000
Third category: 30,001 - 50,000 30,000 - 50,000
Fourth category: 20,001 - 30,000 25,000 - 30,000
Fifth category: 10,001 - 20,000 15,000 - 25,000
Sixth category: 0 - 10,000 15,000
Municipalities of Amazonas and its department corregimientos.

The Department of Amazonas is formed by 2 municipalities which are Leticia and Puerto Nariño; and by "department corregimientos" which is a special combined functions between a presidential power and a corregimiento. The reason for this classification is that the large territory is mostly inhospitable, inhabited only by indigenous peoples and within the Amazon rainforest.

Municipalities
  1. Leticia
  2. Puerto Nariño
Municipalities of Antioquia.
Municipalities of Arauca
Municipalities of Atlántico. The district and urban area of Barranquilla is highlighted
Bogotá Capital District with its 20 localities

Bogotá is divided into localities (localidades):

Municipalities of Bolívar.
Municipalities of Boyacá. The district and urban area of Tunja high lightened
Municipalities of Caldas.
Municipalities of Caquetá.
Municipalities of Casanare.
Municipalities of Cauca.
Municipalities of Cesar.
Municipalities of Chocó.
Municipalities in the Córdoba Department.
Municipalities of Cundinamarca and the Capital District.
Municipalities of Guajira.
  1. Albania
  2. Barrancas
  3. Dibulla
  4. Distracción
  5. El Molino
  6. Fonseca
  7. Hatonuevo
  8. La Jagua del Pilar
  9. Maicao
  10. Manaure
  11. Riohacha
  12. San Juan del Cesar
  13. Uribia
  14. Urumita
  15. Villanueva
Municipalities of Guainía.
  1. Barranco Minas
  2. Cacahual
  3. Inirida
  4. La Guadalupe
  5. Morichal Nuevo
  6. Pana Pana
  7. Puerto Colombia
  8. San Felipe
Municipalities of Guaviare.
  1. Calamar
  2. El Retorno
  3. Miraflores
  4. San José del Guaviare
Municipalities of Huila.
Municipalities of Magdalena.
Municipalities of Meta.
Municipalities of Nariño.
Municipalities of Norte de Santander.
Municipalities of Putumayo.
Municipalities of Quindío.
  1. Armenia
  2. Buenavista
  3. Calarcá
  4. Circasia
  5. Córdoba
  6. Filandia
  7. Génova
  8. La Tebaida
  9. Montenegro
  10. Pijao
  11. Quimbaya
  12. Salento
Municipalities of Risaralda.
  1. Apía
  2. Balboa
  3. Belén de Umbría
  4. Dosquebradas
  5. Guática
  6. La Celia
  7. La Virginia
  8. Marsella
  9. Mistrató
  10. Pereira
  11. Pueblo Rico
  12. Quinchía
  13. Santa Rosa de Cabal
  14. Santuario
Municipalities of San Andres and Providencia
  1. Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands
  2. San Andrés
Municipalities of Santander.
Municipalities of Sucre.
Municipalities of Tolima.
Municipalities of Valle del Cauca.
Municipalities of Vaupés.
Municipalities
  1. Caruru
  2. Mitú
  3. Taraira
Department Corregimientos
  1. Pacoa
  2. Papunahua
  3. Yavarate
Municipal Corregimientos
  1. Acaricuara
  2. Villa Fátima
Municipalities of Vichada.
  1. Cumaribo (including the former department corregimientos of San José de Ocune and Santa Rita)
  2. La Primavera
  3. Puerto Carreño
  4. Santa Rosalía
  • 1954 Special District of Bogotá
  • 1991: Capital District of Bogotá; Industrial and Portuarial District of Barranquilla; Historical, Cultural and Touristic District of Santa Marta; and Cultural and Touristic District of Cartagena
  • 2007: Historical and Cultural District of Tunja; Special Industrial, Portuarial, Biodiverse and Ecotouristic, District of Buenaventura; Special, Ecotouristic, Historical and Universitarian District of Popayán; Special Portuarial District of Turbo; Special Border and Touristic District of Cúcuta; Special Industrial, Portuarial, Biodiverse and Ecotouristic, District of Tumaco

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Nuestra Entidad - FCM" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 September 2007.
  2. ^ Article 7 http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=48267
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