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.
Contents
- Categories
- Amazonas Department
- Bogot Capital District
- La Guajira Department
- Guaina Department
- Guaviare Department
- Quindo Department
- Risaralda Department
- San Andrs and Providencia Department
- Vaups Department
- Vichada Department
- Districts
- References
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 the municipalities have the categories listed below:
Amazonas Department
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.
- Leticia
- Puerto Nariño
Bogotá, Capital District
Bogotá is divided into localities (localidades):
La Guajira Department
- Albania
- Barrancas
- Dibulla
- Distracción
- El Molino
- Fonseca
- Hatonuevo
- La Jagua del Pilar
- Maicao
- Manaure
- Riohacha
- San Juan del Cesar
- Uribia
- Urumita
- Villanueva
Guainía Department
- Barranco Minas
- Cacahual
- Inirida
- La Guadalupe
- Morichal Nuevo
- Pana Pana
- Puerto Colombia
- San Felipe
Guaviare Department
- Calamar
- El Retorno
- Miraflores
- San José del Guaviare
Quindío Department
- Armenia
- Buenavista
- Calarcá
- Circasia
- Córdoba
- Filandia
- Génova
- La Tebaida
- Montenegro
- Pijao
- Quimbaya
- Salento
Risaralda Department
- Apía
- Balboa
- Belén de Umbría
- Dosquebradas
- Guática
- La Celia
- La Virginia
- Marsella
- Mistrato
- Pereira
- Pueblo Rico
- Quinchía
- Santa Rosa de Cabal
- Santuario
San Andrés and Providencia Department
- Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands
- San Andrés
Vaupés Department
- Caruru
- Mitú
- Taraira
Vichada Department
- Cumaribo (including the former department corregimientos of San José de Ocune and Santa Rita)
- La Primavera
- Puerto Carreño
- Santa Rosalía