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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 edit

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

Amazonas Department edit

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

Leticia
Puerto Nariño

Special Corregimientos

Antioquia Department edit

Municipalities of Antioquia.

Arauca Department edit

Municipalities of Arauca

Atlántico Department edit

Municipalities of Atlántico. The district and urban area of Barranquilla is highlighted

Bogotá, Capital District edit

Bogotá Capital District with its 20 localities

Bogotá is divided into localities (localidades):

Bolívar Department edit

Municipalities of Bolívar.

Boyacá Department edit

Municipalities of Boyacá. The district and urban area of Tunja high lightened

Caldas Department edit

Municipalities of Caldas.

Caquetá Department edit

Municipalities of Caquetá.

Casanare Department edit

Municipalities of Casanare.

Cauca Department edit

Municipalities of Cauca.

Cesar Department edit

Municipalities of Cesar.

Chocó Department edit

Municipalities of Chocó.

Córdoba Department edit

Municipalities in the Córdoba Department.

Cundinamarca Department edit

Municipalities of Cundinamarca and the Capital District.

La Guajira Department edit

Municipalities of Guajira.

Guainía Department edit

Municipalities of Guainía.

Guaviare Department edit

Municipalities of Guaviare.

Huila Department edit

Municipalities of Huila.

Magdalena Department edit

Municipalities of Magdalena.

Meta Department edit

Municipalities of Meta.

Nariño Department edit

Municipalities of Nariño.

Norte de Santander Department edit

Municipalities of Norte de Santander.

Putumayo Department edit

Municipalities of Putumayo.

Quindío Department edit

Municipalities of Quindío.

Risaralda Department edit

Municipalities of Risaralda.

San Andrés and Providencia Department edit

Municipalities of San Andres and Providencia

Santander Department edit

Municipalities of Santander.

Sucre Department edit

Municipalities of Sucre.

Tolima Department edit

Municipalities of Tolima.

Valle del Cauca Department edit

Municipalities of Valle del Cauca.

Vaupés Department edit

Municipalities of Vaupés.

Municipalities

Department Corregimientos

Municipal Corregimientos

Vichada Department edit

Municipalities of Vichada.

Cumaribo (including the former department corregimientos of San José de Ocune and Santa Rita)
La Primavera
Puerto Carreño
Santa Rosalía

Districts edit

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

References edit

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

External links edit

(in Spanish) Colombian Federation of Municipalities
(in Spanish) Libre University Municipalities of Colombia
(in Spanish) National Estatistics Department (DANE) 2005 Census on the 1,119 municipalities of Colombia

[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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