New Articles! | History | Politic | Geography | Provinces | Economy | People | Culture | Café de Colombia | and much more... A country of 1,140,000 km², roughly equal to the area of Portugal, Spain, and France put together. Colombia occupies the northwestern end of South America, and is the only country there with coasts on both the Pacific (1350 km long), and the Atlantic (over 1600 km) oceans. Three Andean ranges run north and south through the western half of the country (about 45% of the country's territory.) The eastern part is a vast lowland which can be generally divided into two regions: a huge open savannah on the north (Llanos), and the Amazon in the south (400,000 km²). A country of geographical contrasts and extremes. As well as the features mentioned, it has such curiosities as the desert of La Guajira, the peninsula in the most north-eastern tip of the country; the jungle of the Pacific coast which holds one of the world's rainfall records; and finally the La Macarena National Park an isolated mountain formation about 120 km long, rising abruptly from the eastern plains to some 2500 meters. Colombia also has several small islands. The major ones are the archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia in the Caribbean Sea, the Islas del Rosario and San Bernardo along the Caribean coast, and Gorgona and Malpelo in the Pacific Ocean. See more about Colombia... Santiago de Cali (IPA: [sanˈtjaɰo ð̞e ˈkali]), often shortened to Cali, is the main city, municipality and capital of the Valle del Cauca, a department in western Colombia. With a population of 2,316.654 hab. Santiago de Cali is the third largest city in Colombia. It is a reference point inside Colombia because of its industrial and commercial development, and has one of the fastest growing economies in the country because of its geographical location. Cali was founded on July 25th in 1536 by the Spanish conqueror Sebastián de Belalcázar. The first part of the name Santiago de Cali honours Saint James the apostle (Santiago in Spanish) whose feast day is celebrated on July 25. There are several possibilities for the origin of the word "Cali". Some attribute it to a mispronunciation of the word "Lili", the name of a local tribe. Others believe that the word "Cali" has quechua origin, and it was brought by the Yanaconas Indians that came from Quito serving Sebastián de Belalcázar. This theory is reinforced by the fact that near Quito there is an indigenous town named Cali Cali. read more>> Propose feature articles here. Propose featured pictures here. ... that Avianca, Colombia's flag carrier, is the oldest still functioning airline in the Americas, founded in 1919? ... that Colombia is the second-most biodiverse country in the world (the most biodiverse per unit area) in terms of terrestrial ecosystems, and ranks first in birds and amphibia? ... that Bogotá has one of the most extensive dedicated Bike Paths Network of any city in the world with a total extension of 300 km? ... that there are more than one hundred universities in Bogotá alone, making it one of the cities with the largest number of higher education institutions in the world? ... that Colombia is one of the few countries in the world that has never defualted on its debt ... that Colombia is one of the oldest democracies in the world New article announcements New articles only. Please consider whether your new article could be used for portal's "Did You Know?" or main page WP:DYK sections and, if so, propose or post it there. Announcements First Wikipedian Encounter of Colombia: A proposal to be discuss. Just come here and let your suggestions, comments or proposals. Welcome non Colombians as well. New articles October 2009 September 2009 February 2009 September 2008 May 2008 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 - Ernesto Báez by User:F3rn4nd0, Travb (talk) 21:41, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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July 2007 The current and most important news in Colombia (2008): July 3 July 2 - Colombia was scored as the third world happiest country of the world by the World Values Survey in a combined data from 1995 - 2007. The first happiest world nation was Denmark with a 4.24 score and the second Puerto Rico with 4.21 score. The most dissatified publics of the subjective well-being list of 97 countries were countries like Moldova, Armenia and Zimbabwe than ranked -1.92.
- John McCain, the Republican candidate to the presidency of the United States, arrived yesterday to Cartagena de Indias where he met President Álvaro Uribe and talked about the Free Trade Agreement with the South American country at the same level of the one among USA, Canada and Mexico. McCain congratulated Uribe saying that he avoid that Colombia became a fail State and said that although the latent problem of human rights, that is being fought to control such crimes, it is not a reason to block the FTA with Colombia. Today McCain will meet other Colombian personalities in the Caribbean city and at 14:00 will leave to Mexico, according to official reports.[1]
Sources: July 1 - Two European delegates, Noel Saenz from France and Jean Pierre Gontard from Switzerland, came to Colombia to look a meeting with the FARC guerrillas in order to improve the dialogues to the Humanitarian exchange, said Caracol National Broadcasting.[2] The two Europeans have the support of the Colombian authorities.
- Human Rights Watch asked John McCain in his visit to Colombia to see the reality of this country and not only that introduced by the government, according with statements made by Kenneth Roth, executive director of the human rights organization. Even if Colombia is a democracy in formal terms, its institutions are seriously treated, especially the judicial and the unionists groups, said the director in a letter.[3]
- Hernán Giraldo Serna, Nodier Giraldo Giraldo, Edwin Mauricio Gómez and Eduardo Enrique engoechea, the four former paramilitary leaders that were extradited to US courts under charges of drug traffick, stated that even if they are facing a judicial process in the North American country, they are willing to continue the support for the process of “Justice and Peace” initiated in Colombia.[4]
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