Colombia

South America
Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Panama and Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama.

4 00 N, 72 00 W

"Libertad y Orden"(Spanish), "Liberty and Order"
President Juan Manuel Sant	Vice President  Angelino Garzón

Capital
Bogotá

Government
Unitary presidential republic

Religion
Roman Catholic 90%, other 10%.

Population
44,205,293

Ethnic group
Mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1%.

National Language                    
Spanish
           
National Day
July 20, 1810 From Spain

Anthem
Oh, Gloria Inmarcesible!(Spanish),O unfading glory!

Currency
Peso (COP)

Attractions
Destino Bogotá,  Galeria Minas de Colombia,  Museo Arqueológico,  Palacio de San Francisco,  Torre Colpatria 

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Art & Cultural

The ICON

Las Lajas Sanctuary                 Las Lajas Sanctuary (in Spanish Santuario de Las Lajas) is a basilica church located in the southern Colombian Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales and built inside the canyon of the Guáitara River. The church is of Gothic revival architecture and was built from January 1, 1916 to August 20, 1949, with donations from local churchgoers, replacing an old nineteenth-century chapel. The name Laja comes from the name of a type of flat sedimentary rock similar to floor tiles found in the Andes Mountains. There was a claim that an apparition of the Virgin Mary was seen. There is now a miraculous image on a stone there. It is still possible to see this today.

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