 Colombia
is the fourth greater country of South America
with an area of 2’032.828 Km2, of
that 1’140.309 km2 corresponds to
continental territory and 892,519 km2 to
marine territory, identify five natural
regions: Caribbean, Andean, Pacific, Orinoquía
and Amazonía.
Colombia
is considered like one of the mega-diverse
countries of the planet, since it contains
between 10% and 15% of global diversity
with just 0,77% of world continental surface.
Its hydrics yield average calculates in
60 l/s/km2, being this one six times greater
than the yield world continental average
and three times the yield average of South
America.
Population
surpasses the 42 million inhabitants, is
concentrated in the urban zones reaching
a 69.3% and esteem that to 2050 year, this
proportion arrives at 84.5% with an urban
and rural population from 70 million inhabitants.
The
data available on the PIB reveal that the
structure of Colombian economy has not changed
substantially during last years (1994-2000
period). The commerce and services sectors,
jointly, are those that contribute more,
with approximately 59% of real PIB. They
follow farming and mining activities, with
near 19% and the manufacturing industry
with near 15% of participation in the PIB.
The prognoses indicate that for the future
years (2002-2004) the national PIB will
oscillate between 2.2 and 2.5 %.
The
Coastal Zone
Throughout its 3,882 km of coast in both
the oceans and their insulars systems that
a set of islands and keys in the Caribbean
Sea (Archipelago of San Andrés, Old
Providence and Santa Catalina, as well as
its keys, small barren islands and low adjacents)
and in the Pacific Ocean (Islands of Malpelo
and Gorgona), presents all the rich, diverse
and productive types of ecosystems marine-coastal
of the tropic; with a diverse culturally
population, and an increasing development
of economic activities.
Unlike
most of the coastal countries of the world,
the number of inhabitants on the coastal
stripe is inferior to a quarter of the total
of the population (12.5% the Caribbean and
2.0% Pacific).
The
Continental Caribbean region includes the
departments of the Guajira, Magdalena, Atlantico,
Bolivar, Cordova, Sucre, Antioquia and Choco,
lodging within the area between the coastline
and the level of 60 meters of height, 26,898
km2 and the territory of 82 municipalities;
is one of the regions of the country that
more quickly has increased its population.
The
cultural heterogeneity of the Continental
Caribbean is related to different modalities
and construction of the territory; at the
moment of Conquest in this region were five
linguistics families that they are the Arawak,
Macrochibcha, First Caribbean Sector and
Zenú Sector.
Associated
organizations
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