Brief history of Colombia: Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a unitary

republic of America located in the northwestern region of South America. It consists in a

social and democratic state of law whose form of government is presidential. It is
politically organized into 32 decentralized departments. The capital of the republic is
Bogotá.

Independence of Colombia, It was the August 7, 1819 at the Battle of Boyacá in a

liberating campaign led by Simon Bolivar in which the absolute independence was given.

Colombia is the only nation in South America with coasts on the Pacific Ocean and the
Caribbean Sea, where you have several islands like the San Andrés and Providencia.
Colombia has the largest number of species per unit area on the planet; total is the second
most diverse country in the world after Brazil, which is more extensive than Colombia.