Columbia is located in the very northern part of South America, it borders the Caribbean Sea between Panama and Venezuela, and it borders the North Pacific Ocean between Ecuador and Panama. The capital city is Bogota. The population, as of July 1999, was estimated to be 39,309,422. As of 1999, their birthrate was estimated at 24.45 per 1,000 people, and their death rate is estimated at 5.59 per 1,000 people. The life expectancy for males is 66.54 years, and for females it’s 74.54 years. Women live longer because we have to suffer more during everyday life. Columbia has a high literacy rate; (91.3% of those aged fifteen and above can read ad write, compared to the United States 97%).

Columbia government is very similar to ours; in fact the recently enacted criminal code was modeled after U.S. procedures. The original

and November. This is the rainy part of the year. Summer months are

Today, Colombia is a parliamentary republic with presidential elections

percent of Colombia’s land is used for farming, although there is much

In 1549, King Charles V of Spain created something called an audencia

for farming. Coffee is the chief agricultural product, and Colombia is

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