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Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two administrative divisions referred to as departments ( Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and one Capital District ( Distrito Capital ). [ 1] Each department has a governor ( gobernador) and an Assembly ( Asamblea Departamental ), elected by popular vote for a four-year period.
Each department belongs to only one dialing zone. Calls from landlines to both landline and mobile numbers are placed by dialing the 10-digit subscriber number with no prefix. Calling internationally from Colombian landlines requires a carrier-selection code be included after the 00 IDD prefix, before the country code and foreign subscriber number:
Colombia is second in the number of amphibian species and is the third most diverse country in reptiles and palms. There are about 1,900 species of mollusks and according to estimates there are about 300,000 species of invertebrates in the country. In Colombia there are 32 terrestrial biomes and 314 types of ecosystems. [177] [178]
Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities ( Spanish: municipios, sing. municipio ). Municipal government is composed by a mayor ( alcalde) and a Municipal Council ( concejo municipal ), both of them elected by popular vote for a four-year period or more. The Capital District is the country's capital, Bogotá, which has a mayor and ...
The Government entities of Colombia ( Spanish: Entidades Gubernamentales de Colombia) are entities of the government of Colombia. The government entities is made up by commissions, control agencies, administrative departments, directorates, funds, superintendencies, among other. [1] Some of these agencies are under the supervision of the ...
Government of Colombia. The Government of Colombia is a republic with separation of powers into executive, judicial and legislative branches. Its legislature has a congress , its judiciary has a supreme court, and its executive branch has a president. [1]
The National Administrative Department of Statistics ( Spanish: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística ), commonly referred to as DANE, is the Colombian Administrative Department responsible for the planning, compilation, analysis and dissemination of the official statistics of Colombia. [2] DANE is responsible for conducting the ...
Area codes 202 and 771. Coordinates: 38°54′N 77°2′W. The red area is the District of Columbia, served by area codes 202 and 771. Area codes 202 and 771 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Washington, D.C. Area code 202 was one of the original North American area codes established in October 1947 by AT&T.