COLOMBIA

Colombia

Colombia is a Wonderful country in South America, this is a unique country that is in Ocean Atlantic and Pacific, it is 1.141.748 Km2 its borders with Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador, and maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti.In a little time it is possible to go on from the perpetual snow to the beaches of the Carib, or of being in company of nice peasants in the Andean altiplanes to sharing the happy paces of the inhabitants of the hot regions.

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ECONOMY

Colombia has one of the stablest economies of Latin America, The growth in the GDP owes in good part to the increase of the exports and to the increase of the investment, made that is reflected in a notable improvement in the confidence in the country.

PEOPLE

Colombia has the third major population in South America (60 % crossbreeds, 20 % of European ancestry, 5 % afrocolombianos, 14 % mixes of African and indigenous and 1 % indigenous cigars). This diversity has generated an intelligent, laborious, happy and hospitable village, with great cultural wealth and a high level of education: its rate of literacy overcomes 92 %.

RELIGION

The majority of people are Catholic, in the last years other religions Also Christian have grown in considerable form and approximately 4.000.000 of Colombians have left the catholicism and have joined in Anglican, Lutheran congregations, Mormons, or in other religious sects.

NATURAL RESOURCES

For its geological development, geographical position and its varied territory, Colombia possesses big extensions of humid tropical forests; fertile lands in the interAndean valleys, in the mountain chains and in the sheets; inexhaustible marine wealths in the Pacific Ocean and the Carib, and abundant water resources for which itoccupies the third place worldwide.

LANGUAGE
Spanish is the official language of the republic of Colombia and with exception of some indigenous tribes, all the Colombians speak it. It is interesting to annotate that the Castilian of Colombia is considered to be some of the Castilians better spoken about the world, its accent is neutral enough.

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