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Colombian Departments
Each of Colombia's 32 departments, in context.
- 🌳 Department of Amazonas — Colombia's southernmost department is 109,000 km² of rainforest, rivers, and indigenous nations — bigger than Portugal but home to fewer than 80,000 people.
- ⛰️ Department of Antioquia — Antioquia is the engine of Colombia — mountainous, entrepreneurial, fiercely proud.
- 🐎 Department of Arauca — Arauca is llanero country on the Venezuelan border — flat tropical savanna, cattle ranches, oil rigs, and the lonesome ballads of the joropo.
- 🌊 Department of Atlántico — Atlántico is small, flat, hot, and loud — Colombia's Caribbean front porch.
- 🏰 Department of Bolívar — Long, skinny Bolívar runs from the Caribbean walls of Cartagena south along the Magdalena River into the swamps of La Mojana.
- ⛪ Department of Boyacá — Boyacá is colonial Colombia frozen in cobblestone — high green Andean valleys, whitewashed villages, the country's oldest universities, and the battlefield whe…
- 🏔️ Department of Caldas — Caldas is the small but mighty heart of Colombia's coffee country.
- 🌴 Department of Caquetá — Caquetá is the door to the Colombian Amazon — where the Andes flatten into rainforest.
- 🛢️ Department of Casanare — Casanare is open Llanos: flat, hot, oil-rich, cattle-rich, and bird-rich.
- 🌋 Department of Cauca — Cauca is mountains, volcanoes, sugar-cane valley edges, indigenous resguardos, Afro-Pacific coast, and Popayán — Colombia's white colonial gem.
- 🪗 Department of Cesar — Cesar is the cradle of vallenato — accordion, caja, and guacharaca telling stories of love and cattle on the Caribbean plains beneath the Sierra Nevada de Sant…
- 🌧️ Department of Chocó — Chocó is the Pacific — drenched, biodiverse, Afro-Colombian, gold-rich, and historically marginalized.
- 🐂 Department of Córdoba — Córdoba is cattle country on the Caribbean — the Sinú river valley, fat ranches, porro and fandango music, and the longest stretch of beach along Colombia's no…
- 🏞️ Department of Cundinamarca — Cundinamarca wraps around the capital district like a green doughnut.
- 🪨 Department of Guainía — Guainía is remote eastern jungle on the Venezuelan and Brazilian borders — black-water rivers, ancient quartzite tepuis, and indigenous nations living much as…
- 🦜 Department of Guaviare — Guaviare bridges the Llanos and the Amazon — savanna giving way to rainforest, with rock paintings 12,000 years old at Cerro Azul that are rewriting Pleistocen…
- 🗿 Department of Huila — Huila gives Colombia coffee, the Magdalena River source, the Tatacoa Desert, and the world-famous monolithic statues of San Agustín — the largest pre-Columbian…
- 🏜️ Department of La Guajira — La Guajira is desert at the top of South America — Wayuu territory, salt flats, dunes meeting the Caribbean, and Cabo de la Vela where the wind never stops.
- 🏔️ Department of Magdalena — Magdalena packs the snowcaps of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Caribbean beaches, the Ciénaga Grande wetland, and the literary heart of Macondo into one imp…
- 🌈 Department of Meta — Meta is the gateway to the Llanos — joropo, cattle, and the river of seven colors at Caño Cristales.
- 🌋 Department of Nariño — Nariño climbs from the Pacific mangroves of Tumaco up to the Andean páramos and the snowcapped Galeras volcano above Pasto.
- 🌄 Department of Norte de Santander — Norte de Santander shares 421 km of border with Venezuela — Cúcuta, Pamplona, the Catatumbo region, and the place where Colombia's 1821 constitution was signed…
- 🌿 Department of Putumayo — Putumayo is the upper-Amazon transition — Andean cloud forest, the sacred yagé (ayahuasca) territory of the Inga and Kamëntsá, and oil-and-coca battles braided…
- 🌴 Department of Quindío — Quindío is the postcard of the Eje Cafetero — green hills, wax palms, coffee farms turned boutique hotels, and the smallest department on Colombia's mainland.
- ☕ Department of Risaralda — Risaralda is the third leg of the coffee axis — busy Pereira at its heart, Otún canyon trekking, and the Tatamá and Los Nevados parks pressing in from both sid…
- 🏝️ Department of San Andrés y Providencia — Colombia's only oceanic department — a Caribbean archipelago closer to Nicaragua than to the mainland, with a Raizal Anglophone-Creole culture and the world's…
- 🪂 Department of Santander — Santander is canyon country — the Chicamocha gash, the colonial gem of Barichara, paragliding over Curití, and the famous santandereano blunt-spoken hospitalit…
- 🥁 Department of Sucre — Sucre is gaita country — long bamboo flutes and Afro-indigenous drums on the savanna sabanera.
- 🥘 Department of Tolima — Tolima sits in the Magdalena valley, snowed-in by the Nevado del Tolima volcano above and the lechona-and-tamal capital of the country below.
- 💃 Department of Valle del Cauca — Valle del Cauca is sugar-cane plain, salsa caleña, the Pacific port of Buenaventura, and Cali — Colombia's most danceable city.
- 🌿 Department of Vaupés — Vaupés is deep northwest Amazon — Tukano-language country, almost no roads, river-only access, and one of the most linguistically diverse small territories on…
- 🌅 Department of Vichada — Vichada is open Orinoco — savanna stretching to the horizon, the wild Tuparro National Park rapids, and the second-largest department by area but one of the le…