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  Ethnologue: Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
8 dialects; 2 in Venezuela, 7 in Colombia.
(KUAKUA, GUAGUA, QUAQUA) [PID] 80 in Colombia (1991 Adelaar); 12,000 in Venezuela (1987 UBS).
(COBARÍA TUNEBO) [TUF] 1,500 in Colombia (1982 SIL).
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 Ethnologue report for Colombia
Ethnic population: 21,425 in Colombia (1998 Arango and Sánchez).
[rmy] 79,000 Gypsies in Colombia (2001 Johnstone and Mandryk).
[tae] Ethnic population: 332 in Colombia (1998 Arango and Sánchez).
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 Colombia - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Colombia's bicameral parliament is the Congress or Congreso, which consists of the 102-seat Senate and the 166-seat Chamber of Representatives.
Colombia has a diverse population that reflects its colourful history and the peoples that have populated her from ancient, to colonial and modern times.
Colombia is the third-most populous country in Latin America, after Brazil and Mexico.
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 Departments of Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Colombia is a unitary republic conformed by 32 departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing.
Departments are further divided in municpalities (Spanish: municipios, sing.
Bogotá is organized as Capital District, and is partially dependent of the Department of Cundinamarca.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Departments_of_Colombia   (173 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Amazonas
Amazonas (state, Brazil), largest state of Brazil, with an area of 1,577,820 sq km (609,200 sq mi).
Amazonas (Colombia), department in the southern part of the republic of Colombia, covering 109,665 sq km (42,342 sq mi) and having a common boundary...
Amazonas has an area of 39,249 sq km (15,154 sq mi) and is bordered by Ecuador on the...
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 VENEZUELA - LoveToKnow Article on VENEZUELA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Its boundary with Colombia is unfixed, a decision by the king of Spain, as arbitrator, in March 1891, having been rejected by Venezuela.
The department of fomento is charged with the supervision of all matters relating to agriculture, stock-raising, mines, industries, commerce, statistics, immigration, public lands, posts, telegraphs and telephones.
The department of the interior is also charged with matters relating to the administration of justice, religion and public worship.
98.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VE/VENEZUELA.htm   (10345 words)

  
 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999 - Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Colombia is a constitutional, multiparty democracy, in which the Liberal and Conservative parties have long dominated politics.
In cases in which military officers were tried, convicted, and sentenced for human rights violations, they generally did not serve prison terms, but were confined to their bases or military police detention centers, as permitted by law.
The 1997 establishment of the United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia (AUC) as a national umbrella organization was designed both to provide a national structure and to develop a more coherent political culture for the nation's local and regional paramilitary groups.
www.usemb.se /human/human1999/colombia.html   (20851 words)

  
 COLOMBIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2000
Colombia voted in favor of the December 1999 UN General Assembly resolution supporting the Mine Ban Treaty, as it had in 1997 and 1998.
The Information Department of the Ministry of Health is currently in the third year of a project which aims to generate needed statistical data on various aspects related to health and violence in Colombia, so as to arrive at a comprehensive view of violence in the country.
The Antioquia Rehabilitation Committeee is in Medellín in Antioquia department.
www.icbl.org /lm/2000/colombia.html   (4708 words)

  
 Languages of Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Atrato River basin in Chocó; Department, Pacific coastal rivers from Cabo Corrientes, to Antioquia (Rio Verde) Department.
Romani, Vlax : 79,000 Gypsies in Colombia (2001).
Wayuu : [guc] 135,000 in Colombia (1995 SIL).
www.locombia.com /general/languages.htm   (1002 words)

  
 Colombia
The authorities blamed FARC guerrillas for the December massacre of 15 farmers in Samana, Caldas department.
The ELN is suspected of involvement in the February 6 killing of nine farmers in the La Cristalina community, in Santander department (Magdalena Medio region).
The kidnaping apparently was in retaliation for meetings that the mayors had held with representatives of the ELN to seek respect for the lives of the civilian population in their municipalities.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/wha/8326.htm   (18397 words)

  
 Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Colombia possesses the islands of Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia in the Caribbean and Malpelo and other small islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Colombia's largest city is its capital Bogotá, other major cities include Medellín, Cali, Cartagena, and Barranquilla.
The government's economic policy and democratic security strategy have engendered a growing sense of confidence in the economy, particularly within the business sector, and GDP growth in 2003 was among the highest in Latin America.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Colombia.htm   (969 words)

  
 The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection
The towering, snowcapped Andes Mountains bisect Colombia from north to south, and a dense jungle in the south competes with the Amazon's rain forest.
In Colombia and neighboring countries, "winning" the war on drugs can only be measured by sporadic battlefield victories resulting in guerrilla casualties, the successful chemical spraying of coca fields, or the seizure of large drug shipments.
Plan Colombia's objectives are to promote the peace process, combat the narcotics industry, revive the Colombian economy, and strengthen the democratic pillars of Colombian society.
www.army.mil /professionalwriting/volumes/volume2/april_2004/4_04_4_pf.html   (3649 words)

  
 colombia information site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Colombia is the only South American country that has coasts in both the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean.
Colombia's economy suffers from weak domestic and foreign demand, austere government budgets, and serious internal armed conflict, but seems poised for recovery.
This colombia variant index site has been developed to help wayward users find the information they are looking for, no matter how they are mistakenly spelled or mistyped.
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 1,000 U.S. TROOPS FIGHT IN COLOMBIA?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Two local residents were forced from their home at gunpoint and walked to the local cemetery where they were interrogated, and one was forced to dig a shallow grave--told it was to be his own.
In conflicted Arauca department, on Colombia's eastern plains, 12 peasants were killed by paramilitaries May 21 at the villages of Pi—alito and Cravo Charo, according to the local Joel Sierra Human Rights Committee.
Following a visit to the nation, UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland told a news conference in May that Colombia is "by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western Hemisphere." With 2 million displaced by the war, Colombia is second only to Sudan and Congo in global refugee crises.
www.ww3report.com /colombiatroops.html   (1493 words)

  
 Lutzomyia Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Middle and Lower Putumayo Department, Colombia, with New Records to ...
A total of 4,840 phlebotomine sand flies from 54 localities in Putumayo department (=state), in the Colombian Amazon region, were collected in Shannon traps, CDC light traps, resting places and from human baits.
In 1992, 43 new cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis were reported from Putumayo; it was declared as a state of middle risk for the disease, with an incidence rate of 23.9 for 100 thousand inhabitants.
The incidence rate for all of Colombia the same year was 16.5 (Ministerio de Salud 1994).
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 E/CN.17/IPF/1997/6 IMPLEMENTATION OF FOREST-RELATED DECISIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The meeting was held in Leticia, Colombia, from 9 to 13 December 1996 at the invitation of the International Alliance of the Indigenous/Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests and co-sponsored by the Governments of Colombia and Denmark.
The Governments of Colombia and Denmark were jointly sponsors of the meeting, which was organised by the International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests, The Co-ordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) and the Organisation of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon (OPIAC).
Ana Luz Rodriguez of the Ministry of Environment of Colombia, in representation of the Minister of Environment of Colombia - Mr.
www.un.org /documents/ecosoc/cn17/ipf/1997/ecn17ipf1997-6.htm   (2769 words)

  
 Colombia maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
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Colombia--Dictionary of the Geography of Colombia (Diccionario Geográfico de Colombia.
The maps have essentially the same sheet size, hence the different scales depending on the size of the department.
www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/columbia.htm   (479 words)

  
 Amazonas Department (Colombia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
4 Departments or states of my country have new flag designs.
The new flag of Amazonas department, seen for the first time at <
Horizontal tricolour of three parts of green, one part of orange and two parts of yellow, with a fl 5-pointed star in the orange stripe, heavilly shifted to the fly.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/co-ama.html   (74 words)

  
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The Special Rapporteur is particularly concerned at the situation of some very small communities that are now on the brink of extinction as a result of the murder of their leaders, massacres, threats and the forced dispersal of their members.
In the department of Chocó, where 90 per cent of the population is Afro-Colombian, the basic needs of 82 per cent are not being met.
According to the National Organization of Colombia’s Indigenous (ONIC), 93 percent of indigenous people live in rural areas; 25 percent are on reservations, and approximately 115,000 indigenous people are without land.
www.idpproject.org /Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/0C87143037A692F3C12568410031239C   (3874 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hermits of St. Augustine
In the Republic of Colombia, 26 members of the Philippine province are employed, including 6 at the residence of Santa Fe de Bogota, 8 in the college at Facatativa, and 12 at other stations.
In Peru 49 members of the same province are employed: 14 priests and 2 lay brothers belonging to the convent at Lima; 12 priests to the college in the same city; 6 in each of the two seminaries at Cuzco and Ayacucho.
In the Prefecture Apostolic of San León de Amazonas, at the mission stations of Peba, Río Tigre, and Leticia in the territory of the Iquito Indians there are 9 priests.
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By means of the Vías para la Paz (Roads for Peace) program, and with the support of Aeronaútica Civil (The Civil Aeronautical Authority), rehabilitation and adaptation of the runways of Bahía Solano and Bajo Baudó, in the Chocó;, has also begun.
Colombia thus becomes the continent's most important commercial gateway, in making possible the integration of the North with the South.
In a verbal report made to the Permanent Council, the first such report since the agreement was signed between the Colombian Government and the OAS, Sergio Caramagna, chief of the mission, emphasized that its work is of a technical rather than a political nature and that it will be financed with outside funds.
www.presidencia.gov.co /colpositiva/abril/col_espanol14demar(ingles).htm   (1074 words)

  
 84-126
As a result of the review, we preliminarily find that Confecciones Amazonas Orinoco, a Colombian exporter of leather wearing apparel to the United States, has complied with the terms of the suspension agreement.
Scope of the Review Imports covered by the review are shipments of Colombian men's, boys', women's, girls' and infants' leather coats and jackets and other leather wearing apparel (such as vests, pants and shorts), as well as parts and pieces thereof.
The Department will publish the final results of this administrative review, includng the results of its analysis of any issues raised in such written comments or at a hearing.
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 ZNet |Colombia | Transnationals in Colombia
In Colombia, Chiquita plans to sell all its holdings, including banana plantations covering more than 15,500 acres in the northern province of Magdalena and a western region called Urubá.
Coal is now Colombia’s second largest legal export, behind oil, and the industry is expected to grow by 30 percent over the next four years.
Colombia remains the world’s largest cocaine supplier and a leading source of heroin for the U.S. market.
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=9&ItemID=5582   (1634 words)

  
 Colombia - Gurupedia
In between the ranges the Cauca and Magdalena rivers flow into the low-lying plains along the Caribbean coast.
African slaves, are the basis of Colombia's current demographics.
The nine eastern lowlands departments, constituting about 54% of Colombia's area, have less than 3% of the population and a density of less than one person per square kilometre.
www.gurupedia.com /c/co/colombia.htm   (834 words)

  
 Colombia War updates
Colombia is the world's largest producer of coca, with 91 percent of Colombian coca cultivated in the Amazon region.
Of Colombia's 84 tribes, about 30 are considered to be seriously endangered because of the conflict and other factors like land invasion, oil exploration and development, according to the Indigenous Organization of Colombia, a nongovernmental group.
Colombia launched a program this month to overhaul its ill-equipped and poorly motivated military and create a more professional force that would be "ready for peace or war." Meanwhile, neighbors Peru and Ecuador have moved more troops to their northern borders under a U.S.-devised plan to contain Colombian "narco-traffickers and their associated insurgents."
www.alphacdc.com /treaty/colombia.html   (8878 words)

  
 The Andean Front | World War 4 Report
In spite of the "Justice and Peace" law passed in June, which provides an amnesty for Colombia's right-wing paramilitary networks in exchange for "demobilization," the networks appear to be as active as ever.
Peasant and unionist leaders throughout the country continue to be targeted, even as the government of President Alvaro Uribe touts the "demobilization" program as evidence of progress towards peace to keep the US aid flowing in.
Bolivia's interim president Eduardo Rodriguez, installed in power June 9 by a vote of Congress as La Paz was again paralyzed by protests, faces a harsh challenge—to hold the country together as social forces pull in opposite directions.
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 ipedia.com: Brazil Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Spanning a vast area between the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean, it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
Nheengatu, Tukano, and Baniwa in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas (2003).
Other languages such as German, Italian, Polish and Japanese are still spoken by 19th and 20th century immigrants and their descendants; however they are rapidly being replaced by Portuguese as those communities are integrating into Brazilian society.
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