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    Departments of Colombia
    Click on the map to visit each department.

    1. Amazonas
    2. Antioquia
    3. Arauca
    4. Atlántico
    5. Bolívar
    6. Boyacá
    7. Caldas
    8. Caquetá
    9. Casanare
    10. Cauca
    11. Cesar
    12. Chocó
    13. Córdoba
    14. Cundinamarca
    15. Guainía
    16. Guaviare

    1. Huila
    2. La Guajira
    3. Magdalena
    4. Meta
    5. Nariño
    6. Nortede Santander
    7. Putumayo
    8. Quindío
    9. Risaralda
    10. SanAndrés and Providencia
    11. Santander
    12. Sucre
    13. Tolima
    14. Valledel Cauca
    15. Vaupes
    16. Vichada
    17. Bogotá * (Distrito Capital)

    Colombia is divided into 32 departments and one capital district which is treated as a department. There are in total 10 districts assigned to cities in Colombia including Bogota, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Tunja, Cucuta, Popayan, Buenaventura, Tumaco and Turbo. Colombia is also subdivided into some municipalities which form departments, each with a municipal seat capital city assigned. Colombia is also subdivided into corregimientos which form municipalities. Each department has a local government which is headed by a department governor and its own department assembly elected for a period of four years in a regional election. Each municipality also headed by a municipal mayor and a municipal council. And for corregimientos there will be an elected corregidor or local leader.

     

     


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