Lilian Paola Torrente Paternina

National Learning Service SENA

The capital of Colombia is Bogotá D.C.

The currency is

Colombian Peso $

The demonym (nationality) is Colombian.

The flag of Colombia was adopted on November 26, 1863. It is a horizontal tricolor of yellow, blue and red. The yellow stripe takes up the top half of the flag and the blue and red take up a quarter of the space each.

Yellow: represents all the gold found in the Colombian land.

Blue: represents the seas on Colombia's shores.

Red: represents the blood spilled for Colombia's independence.

The type of

government is

Unitary presidential

constitutional

republic

The head of state is

the President Juan

Manuel Santos.

The Tatacoa Desert is the second largest arid zone in Colombia after the Guajira Peninsula. It occupies 330 square kilometers of land. This semiarid region is located north of Huila Department, 38 km from the city of Neiva in Colombia. It is a rich deposit of fossils and is a great tourist destination.

Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (Spanish: Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina); or colloquially San Andrés y Providencia is one of the departments of Colombia. It consists of two island groups about 775 km (482 mi) northwest of mainland Colombia and 220 km (140 mi) from the coast of Nicaragua, and eight outlying banks and reefs. The largest island of the archipelago is called San Andrés and its capital is San Andrés.

The main characteristic of this dish is the generous amount and variety of food in a traditional bandejapaisa: red beans cooked with pork, white rice, carne molida (ground meat), chicharrón, fried egg, plantain (patacones), chorizo, arepa, hogaosauce, black pudding (morcilla), avocado and lemon

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