Municipalities of Colombia explained
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
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 | data-sort-type="number" | Population more than ! | data-sort-type="number" | 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 | |
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
- Leticia
- Puerto Nariño
Bogotá is divided into localities (localidades):
- Albania
- Barrancas
- Dibulla
- Distracción
- El Molino
- Fonseca
- Hatonuevo
- La Jagua del Pilar
- Maicao
- Manaure
- Riohacha
- San Juan del Cesar
- Uribia
- Urumita
- Villanueva
- Barranco Minas
- Cacahual
- Inirida
- La Guadalupe
- Morichal Nuevo
- Pana Pana
- Puerto Colombia
- San Felipe
- Calamar
- El Retorno
- Miraflores
- San José del Guaviare
- Armenia
- Buenavista
- Calarcá
- Circasia
- Córdoba
- Filandia
- Génova
- La Tebaida
- Montenegro
- Pijao
- Quimbaya
- Salento
- Apía
- Balboa
- Belén de Umbría
- Dosquebradas
- Guática
- La Celia
- La Virginia
- Marsella
- Mistrató
- Pereira
- Pueblo Rico
- Quinchía
- Santa Rosa de Cabal
- Santuario
- Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands San Andrés
- Municipalities
- Caruru
- Mitú
- Taraira
- Department Corregimientos
- Pacoa
- Papunahua
- Yavarate
- Municipal Corregimientos
- Acaricuara
- Villa Fátima
- Cumaribo (including the former department corregimientos of San José de Ocune and Santa Rita)
- La Primavera
- Puerto Carreño
- 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
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Nuestra Entidad - FCM. https://web.archive.org/web/20070929140952/http://www.fcm.org.co/es/load.php/uid=0/leng=es/0/quienesomos.htm. 29 September 2007. es.
- Article 7 http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=48267
