* Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport, also known as Palmaseca International Airport, an airport in Colombia,

Chile also concluded preferential trade agreements with Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Colombia also entered into an agreement with the International Monetary Fund which provided a $ 2. 7 billion guarantee ( extended funds facility ), while committing the government to budget discipline and structural reforms.

Spanish also transported African slaves and forcedly migrated many indigenous tribes throughout Colombia.

It is also one of the oldest standing bridges in Colombia.

Colombia also has seven ships registered in other countries ( Antigua and Barbuda, two ; Panama, five ).

While early initiatives in the Colombian peace process gave reason for optimism, the Pastrana administration also has had to combat high unemployment and other economic problems, such as the fiscal deficit and the impact of global financial instability on Colombia.

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

Colombia has also signed and ratified 105 international treaties or agreements relating to the environment.

Colombia is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the United States-military ( as covered under Article 98 ).

Carlos Alberto Valderrama Palacio (; born September 2, 1961 in Santa Marta, Colombia ), also known as El Pibe (" The Kid ") is a former Colombian football player.

As a result, Ecuador became the District of the South within the Republic of Gran Colombia, which also included present-day Venezuela and Colombia and had Bogotá as its capital.

On 5 July 2008 a meeting took place between Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador regarding a railway for freight and passengers to link the three countries, and linking the Pacific with the Atlantic also.

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua also are negotiating a free trade agreement with Canada, and negotiations started on 2006 for a free trade agreement with Colombia.

Small Italian-speaking minorities on the continent are also found in Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil.

Bolivar, well aware of geographical obstacles but also of the unique qualities and critical role in trade throughout history and under Spanish tutelage, had hesitated to include Panama in his Gran Colombia project.

It is also evident that Roosevelt speeches made clear that the United States decided to unilaterally break with the Bidlack-Mallarino treaty and, instead of solving the internal Panamanian problem as the treaty forced them to do, helped with the separation of Panama from Colombia.

For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe — see: Table of voting systems by nation.

He also said that he would learn from the mistakes of previous leaders, who failed to secure a lasting ceasefire with FARC, though the military would still continue operations throughout Colombia while talks continued.

A 1992 Central Intelligence Agency report " acknowledged that the FARC had become increasingly involved in drugs through their ' taxing ' of the trade in areas under their geographical control and that in some cases the insurgents protected trafficking infrastructure to further fund their insurgency ," but also described the relationship between the FARC and the drug traffickers as one " characterized by both cooperation and friction " and concluded that " we do not believe that the drug industry Colombia would be substantially disrupted in the short term by attacks against guerrillas.

It can also be found in Saint Kitts and Nevis, in parts of South America ( Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, and Uruguay ), and in Israel.

In Colombia they are called invasiones ( as in " invading a property ", as squatting can be related to a building or an empty lot ), in Venezuela they are also known as invasiones, in Argentina the term used is villa miseria, in Chile they are called Tomas, and in Uruguay, cantegriles.

There were also accusations of subversive activities in Honduras, Costa Rica, and Colombia and in the case of Honduras and Costa Rica outright military operations by Nicaraguan troops.

* The Progressive Metal band from Barranquilla, Colombia, Absalom has his name.

Regionally, she has signed bilateral free-trade agreements with Panama, Peru and Colombia.

Colombia has a free market economy with major commercial and investment ties to the United States.

Colombia's international reserves have remained stable at around $ 8. 35 billion, and Colombia has successfully remained in international capital markets.

As a result of increasing competition, Colombia has a relatively modern telecommunications infrastructure that primarily serves larger towns and cities.

Colombia has about 60 television stations, including seven low-power stations.

Nevertheless, Colombia has one of the lowest ratios of paved roads per inhabitant in Latin America.

Colombia has of rail lines, of which are gauge and of which are gauge.

Colombia has well-developed air routes and an estimated total of 984 airports, 100 of which have paved runways, plus two heliports.

Colombia has 4, 350 kilometers of gas pipelines, 6, 134 kilometers of oil pipelines, and 3, 140 kilometers of refined-products pipelines.

The military has seized power three times in Colombia's history: in 1830, after the dissolution of Great Colombia ; again in 1854 ( by General José María Melo ); and from 1953 to 1957 ( under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ).

Additionally, the growing severity of countrywide guerrilla attacks by the FARC and ELN, and smaller movements, as well as the growth of drug production, corruption and the spread of even more violent paramilitary groups such as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia ( AUC ) has made it difficult to solve the country's problems.

For example, Ecuador has closed its main border crossing with Colombia every night since August 2002, when evidence emerged that Colombian guerrillas and paramilitaries were asserting control over Ecuador's border communities.

Colombia has traditionally played an active role in the United Nations and the Organization of American States and in their subsidiary agencies.

Colombia has signed free-trade agreements with Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela.

In recent years, Craven Cottage has hosted several International Friendly matches, including the Republic of Ireland national football team who played Colombia and Nigeria there in May 2008 and May 2009 respectively and Oman in 2012.

It has 2010 km of land boundaries, with Colombia in the north ( 590 km border ) and Peru in the east and south ( 1, 420 km border ).

Colombia is by far the worlds largest producer of emeralds, constituting 50-95 % of the world production, with the number depending on the year, source and emeralds grade .< ref > Emerald production in Colombia has increased drastically in the last decade, increasing by 78 % in 2010 compared to production in 2000.