miércoles, 4 de septiembre de 2013

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Colombia, officially Republic of Colombia, is an unitary republic of America placed in the northwestern region of South America. It is constituted in a social and democratic condition of right which form of government is presidencialista. It is organized politically in 32 decentralized departments. The capital of the republic is Bogotá.



Colombia is the only nation of South America that has coasts in the ocean Pacific Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea, in that it possesses diverse islands as San Andrés's archipelago and Decision. Colombia takes the biggest number of species as a unit of area in the planet, in total it is the most megadiverse second country of the world.






Etymology:


The name of Colombia was conceived in honoring to whom it discovered America, Christopher Colón (in Italian Cristoforo Colombo) on February .18 19 15, 1819, during the Congress of Narrowness, there was proclaimed the State that adopted the name of ' Republic of Colombia ', known today as Great Colombia to avoid confusions with the current Colombia, with sovereignty on the territories of till then Viceroyalty of New Granada, Quito and General Captaincy of Venezuela.20 The name was proposed by Simón Bolívar in the Letter of Jamaica rum 21





Tourism in Colombia:





Colombia is a modern nation, with an infrastructure that takes advantage of his natural resources and the human capital to inspire love in the tourist. For his privileged location in the continent and the presence of his three mountain chains daughters of the Andes, it assembles in his natural regions all the environments of the tropic: glaciers, beaches, plains, mountains, jungles and deserts



National natural park Tayrona



 A 34 km from the city of Holy Martha is one of the most important nature reserves of Colombia. It is a habitat of a great quantity of species that are distributed in regions by different thermal floors that go from the level of the sea up to heights of 900 m.




Cartagena of The Indies 



 Con the passage of time, Cartagena has developed his urban zone, preserving the historical center and turning into one of the ports of major importance into Colombia.





Santa Marta

His location between the Sierra Nevada of Holy Martha, with the major summits of the country, and the Caribbean Sea, they make her attractive to visit the variety of fauna and flora that exists in the zone








The Amazon refuge of nature and culture: 


The Colombian Amazon is an incredible destination for the tourists who seek to have extreme contact with the nature.


Barranquilla's Carnival:

A cultural holiday East alive exchequer that is transmitted from generation to generation, is the most authentic expression of the Colombian people and a meeting of colors, of races, of legends, of the happiness costeña, of the merriment and of the musical, such paces as: the cumbia, the mapalé, the scrawl and the sound of the black that flood Barranquilla's streets.



Bogota, the metropolis of the culture and the business:

It is a city as diverse as the entire country, is the most important cultural center of Colombia and a place with hundreds of sites for knowing and activities for realizing.







Santander:


Modern destination, of adventure and magic peoples He Guides of Tourist tourist Guide of Santander Comes out guide Turística of Santander. 31MB Santander, this name that evokes heroes and liberators, is also synonymous of adventure, adrenaline and emotion. In the sky, men fly as birds on board of a parapente; in waterfalls and rock walls, as insects suspended by harnesses, and in caves and rivers like fish on board of canoes.



COLOMBIAN FOLKLORE:


 The folklore is the compendium of all the manifestations of the popular culture and includes therefore, the legends, the stories, the dances, the traditions, the music and multitude of artistic diverse expressions. The Colombian folklore is very rich, so much in the number, since in the variety of his manifestations, to such a point that each of the different geographical regions of the country, possesses his characteristics folclóricas own.






Cuisine of Colombia:


Colombia's cuisine is the result of the fusion of food, culinary practices and traditions of local Native American cultures, European (mostly Spanish) and African. Although there is no consensus on a single dish that represents the entire Colombian cuisine, the arepa stand and stew as the most representative. Other regional dishes featured are paisa tray, chili santafereño, the suckling Tolima and Huila and coastal cheese nickname, among others.