Sunshine Action America Volunteer Tour -
COLOMBIA
耀陽行動 - 南美愛心哥倫比亞行
Feb
2012
(Mission in 2012, includes Peru & Ecuador in same trip)
COLOMBIA officially the
Republic of Colombia , is a constitutional republic in
northwestern South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by
Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to
the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the northwest by Panama; and
to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also shares maritime
borders with Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras,
Nicaragua and Costa Rica. With a population of over 45 million
people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world
and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia
has the third largest Spanish-speaking population in the world
after Mexico and Spain.
Bogota - Colombia
The territory of what is now Colombia was originally
inhabited by indigenous nations including the Muisca, Quimbaya,
and Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period
of conquest and colonization killing or taking as slaves almost
90% of that native population, and then creating the Viceroyalty
of New Granada (comprising modern-day Colombia, Venezuela,
Ecuador, the northwest region of Brazil and Panama) with its
capital in Bogotá. Independence from Spain was won in
1819, but by 1830 "Gran Colombia" had collapsed with the
secession of Venezuela and Ecuador. What is now Colombia and
Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada. The new nation
experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation
(1858), and then the United States of Colombia (1863), before
the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Panama
seceded in 1903 under pressure to fulfill financial
responsibilities towards the United States government to build
the Panama Canal.
Colombia is a
standing middle power with the fourth largest economy in
Latin America. It also has the most unequal distribution of
wealth of any country in Latin America.
Colombia is very ethnically diverse, and the interaction
between descendants of the original native inhabitants, Spanish
colonists, Africans brought as slaves and twentieth-century
immigrants from Europe and the Middle East has produced a rich
cultural heritage. This has also been influenced by Colombia's
varied geography. The majority of the urban centers are located
in the highlands of the Andes mountains, but Colombian territory
also encompasses Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and both
Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. Ecologically, Colombia is one
of the world's 18 megadiverse countries (the most biodiverse per
unit area.
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