American States

Colombia – South American territory, which borders Panama, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador, bordering the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Has a peculiar geographic feature – the Andes, which are located in the central and western gosudarstva.Chislo parts of the country's population is located in the area of 35101000 inhabitants, language – Spanish. Most Colombians support Protestantism. Capital – Bogota. Currency – the peso. Europeans visited the country in 1502, during the period At Caribbean expedition H. Columbus and colonized the territory became only 1510goda. At that time in Colombia was unfriendly Chibcha empire, not wanting to put up with strangers.

And until the 19th century occurred wars of liberation, as a result of them in 1819. Was declared the freedom of New Granada, which included Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama. xx century has presented several other conflict in Colombia: Government and cocaine cartels have shared power in the country with each other. However, in 1991. The main Kortel was defeated, but the state is a member of gatt, the un, the Organization of American States, World Bank and the Association of Caribbean countries. Klmatichesky Belt Colombia is not uniform, despite the fact that Columbia is in the tropics. In coastal areas, the average temperature ranges from 24 to 27 degrees Celsius and at altitudes of 200-2300m. Above sea level, subtropical climate, and at an altitude of 2300-3000m.

– the climate is temperate. Above 3000m above sea level is cold area where the temperature is 13 degrees to miss out. Flora also varied depending on its location, but with all this, almost half the country is forests, which can be found walnut, oak, cedar, redwood, pine, etc. Fauna is also very rich: sloth, peccaries, puma, anteater, jaguar, armadillo, various kinds of monkeys. Sufficiently large number of birds, among them the most widespread: cockatoo, a hummingbird, a condor, a vulture, toucan. Colombia is known that it found traces of one of the most secret and exciting world civilizations – the Aztecs. Near San Agustin in the caves found a lot of figures reminiscent of the era of the statue of the Aztec Empire.