Municipalities of Colombia


The Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia with 1,122 municipalities. Each one of them is led by a mayor elected by popular vote and represents the maximum executive government official at a municipality level under the mandate of the governor of their department which is a representative of all municipalities in the department; municipalities are grouped to form departments.
The municipalities of Colombia are also grouped in an association called the Federación Colombiana de Municipios, which functions as a union under the private law and under the constitutional right to free association to defend their common interests.

Categories

Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 the municipalities have the categories listed below:
CategoryPopulation more thanRevenues ICLD
Especial category:500,001 inhabitants400,000 and over
First category:100,001 - 500,000100,000 - 400,000
Second category:50,001 - 100,00050,000 - 100,000
Third category:30,001 - 50,00030,000 - 50,000
Fourth category:20,001 - 30,00025,000 - 30,000
Fifth category:10,001 - 20,00015,000 - 25,000
Sixth category:10,00015,000

[Amazonas Department]

The Department of Amazonas is formed by 2 municipalities which are Leticia and Puerto Nariño; and by "department corregimientos" which is a special combined functions between a presidential power and a corregimiento. The reason for this classification is that the large territory is mostly inhospitable, inhabited only by indigenous peoples and within the Amazon rainforest.
;Municipalities
  1. Leticia
  2. Puerto Nariño

    [Antioquia Department]

[Arauca Department]

[Atlántico Department]

[Bogotá, Capital District]

Bogotá is divided into localities :

[Bolívar Department]

[Boyacá Department]

[Caldas Department]

[Caquetá Department]

[Casanare Department]

[Cauca Department]

[Cesar Department]

[Chocó Department]

[Córdoba Department]

[Cundinamarca Department]

[La Guajira Department]

  1. Albania
  2. Barrancas
  3. Dibulla
  4. Distracción
  5. El Molino
  6. Fonseca
  7. Hatonuevo
  8. La Jagua del Pilar
  9. Maicao
  10. Manaure
  11. Riohacha
  12. San Juan del Cesar
  13. Uribia
  14. Urumita
  15. Villanueva

    [Guainía Department]

  16. Barranco Minas
  17. Cacahual
  18. Inirida
  19. La Guadalupe
  20. Morichal Nuevo
  21. Pana Pana
  22. Puerto Colombia
  23. San Felipe

    [Guaviare Department]

  24. Calamar
  25. El Retorno
  26. Miraflores
  27. San José del Guaviare

    [Huila Department]

[Magdalena Department]

[Meta Department]

[Nariño Department]

[Norte de Santander Department]

[Putumayo Department]

[Quindío Department]

  1. Armenia
  2. Buenavista
  3. Calarcá
  4. Circasia
  5. Córdoba
  6. Filandia
  7. Génova
  8. La Tebaida
  9. Montenegro
  10. Pijao
  11. Quimbaya
  12. Salento

    [Risaralda Department]

  13. Apía
  14. Balboa
  15. Belén de Umbría
  16. Dosquebradas
  17. Guática
  18. La Celia
  19. La Virginia
  20. Marsella
  21. Mistrató
  22. Pereira
  23. Pueblo Rico
  24. Quinchía
  25. Santa Rosa de Cabal
  26. Santuario

    San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina|San Andrés and Providencia Department]]

  27. Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands
  28. San Andrés

    [Santander Department]

[Sucre Department]

[Tolima Department]

[Valle del Cauca Department]

[Vaupés Department]

;Municipalities
  1. Caruru
  2. Mitú
  3. Taraira
;Department Corregimientos
  1. Pacoa
  2. Papunahua
  3. Yavarate
;Municipal Corregimientos
  1. Acaricuara
  2. Villa Fátima

    [Vichada Department]

  3. Cumaribo
  4. La Primavera
  5. Puerto Carreño
  6. Santa Rosalía

    [Districts]