Administrative divisions of Colombia

Colombia is a unitary republic conformed by thirty-two departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and a Capital District (Distrito Capital).

## Departments[edit]

Main article: Departments of Colombia

Each department has a Governor (gobernador) and a Department Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected consecutively.

## Municipalities[edit]

Main article: Municipalities of Colombia

Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities (Spanish: municipios, sing. municipio). Municipal government is composed by a mayor (alcalde) and a Municipal Council (concejo municipal), both of them elected by popular vote for a four-year period or more.

The Capital District is the country's capital, Bogotá, which has a mayor and a council and is independent of any department.

## Corregimientos[edit]

Main article: Corregimiento

## Indigenous territories[edit]

Main article: Indigenous territory (Colombia)

## Postal codes[edit]

The postal codes are 6 digit numeric. The first two digits are the numbers used by DANE to encode the departments, the next two in the range of 00 to 89 encode postal zones, followed by the last two encoding up to 100 postal districts.[1]

## See also[edit]

* List of cities in Colombia

## References[edit]

1. ^ Codigos Postales, archived from the original on 2010-12-01, retrieved 2021-03-28

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