COLOMBIA Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign country located in the northwestern region of South America. It is constituted in a unitary, social and democratic State of law whose form of government is presidential. It is a republic politically organized in thirty-two decentralized departments and the Capital District of Bogotá, seat of the National Government. Including Malpelo Island, Cayo Roncador and Serrana Bank, the country covers an area of 1,141,748 km, making it the twenty-fifth largest country in the world and the seventh largest in the Americas. It claims as territorial sea the area up to 12 nautical miles away,4 maintaining a border dispute in this regard with Venezuela and Nicaragua.1415 It limits to the east with Venezuela and Brazil, to the south with Peru and Ecuador and to the west with Panama. ; In terms of maritime limits, it borders Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela in the C...