Municipalities of Colombia

The Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia with 1,119 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.

The municipalities are listed below, by department:

Amazonas Department

The Department of Amazonas is formed by 45 municipalities which are Leticia and Puerto Nariño etc...; 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

1. Leticia
2. Puerto Nariño

Antioquia Department

Arauca Department

Atlántico Department

Bogotá, Capital District

Bogotá is divided into localities (localidades):

Bolívar Department

Boyacá Department

Caldas Department

Caquetá Department

Casanare Department

Cauca Department

Cesar Department

Chocó Department

Córdoba Department

Cundinamarca Department

Guajira Department

1. Albania
2. Barrancas
3. Dibulla
4. Distracción
5. El Molino
6. Fonseca
7. Hatonuevo
8. La Jagua del Pilar
9. Maicao
10. Manaure
11. Riohacha
12. San Juan del Cesar
13. Uribia
14. Urumita
15. Villanueva

Guainía Department

1. Barranco Minas
2. Cacahual
3. Guaviare
4. Inirida
5. La Guadalupe
6. Morichal Nuevo
7. Pana Pana
8. Puerto Colombia
9. San Felipe

Guaviare Department

1. Calamar
2. El Retorno
3. Miraflores
4. San José del Guaviare

Huila Department

Magdalena Department

Meta Department

Nariño Department

Norte de Santander Department

Putumayo Department

Quindío Department

1. Armenia
2. Buenavista
3. Calarcá
4. Circasia
5. Córdoba
6. Filandia
7. Génova
8. La Tebaida
9. Montenegro
10. Pijao
11. Quimbaya
12. Salento

Risaralda Department

1. Apia
2. Balboa
3. Belén de Umbría
4. Dosquebradas
5. Guatica
6. La Celia
7. La Virginia
8. Marsella
9. Mistrato
10. Pereira
11. Pueblo Rico
12. Quinchía
13. Santa Rosa de Cabal
14. Santuario

San Andrés and Providencia Department

1. Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands
2. San Andrés

Santander Department

Sucre Department

Tolima Department

Valle del Cauca Department

Vaupés Department

Municipalities

1. Caruru
2. Mitú
3. Taraira

Department Corregimientos

1. Pacoa
2. Papunahua
3. Yavarate

Municipal Corregimientos

1. Acaricuara
2. Villa Fátima

Vichada Department

1. Cumaribo (including the former department corregimientos of San José de Ocune and Santa Rita)
2. La Primavera
3. Puerto Carreño
4. Santa Rosalia

Districts

• 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

External links

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

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