This is a report for History on the country 'Colombia'
Date Submitted: 11/16/2002 12:07:47
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 6 pages (1649 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 6 pages (1649 words)
The Republic of Colombia is the fourth largest country in South
America. It is located
at the north-western tip of the continent. Its neighbors are Brazil and
Venezuela to the east,
Panama to the north-west, and Ecuador and Peru to the south. Colombia
is the only South
American country that's coast is on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean
Sea. There are eight
islands under Colombian rule, and they are San Andres, Providencia, San
Bernado,
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Trujillo.
Colombia's population today is approximately 34,296,000. 95% of these
people are
Roman Catholic. The capital, Bogota has an estimated 4,921,00 people,
and the second
largest city, Cali, has 1,624,00 people. After Mexico and Brazil,
Colombia is the third most
populolus country in Latin America.3 About one half of the population
today is mestizo, a
mixture of Indian and European descent.4 Europeans are about one fifth
of the population,
and and there are some blacks, and about 400 Indian tribes.
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