PROJECT - COLOMBIA

Colombia is a country located in northwestern South America, the constitutionally organized as a decentralized unitary republic. Its capital is Bogota D. C. Its area is 2,070,408 km2, of which 1.141.748 km2 correspond to the mainland and the remaining 928,660 km2 to its maritime extension, which maintains border disputes with Venezuela and Nicaragua. Bordered on the east by Venezuela and Brazil, the south by Peru and Ecuador to the northwest by Panama, in terms of maritime boundaries, adjacent to Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea, and Panama, Costa Rica and Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. Colombia is the only South American nation that has coastlines on the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, which has several islands and the Archipelago of San Andres and Providencia. The country is the fourth largest in land area in South America, with around 45 million inhabitants, the third in population in Latin America after Brazil and Mexico. Colombia is recognized worldwide for the production of weak coffee, flowers, emeralds, coal and oil, its cultural diversity and for being the second richest country in biodiversity in the world. It is a major economic centers of the latin speaking associates and in 2009 the economy on a planetary level number 27.