Colombia is the only South American country with both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. The fourth-

largest country in South America.

Colombia's capital city, Bogotá, is located in the center of the country.

The national flag consists of three horizontal stripes; the yellow upper stripe is twice as wide as each

of the other two, which are blue and red.

The Andes Mountains divide just north of Colombia's southern border with Ecuador into three

separate chains, or cordilleras, known as the Cordillera Occidental (western), the Cordillera Central,

and the Cordillera Separating the three principal Andean ranges are Colombia's two major rivers, the

Cauca, which flows northward between the western and central cordilleras, and the Magdalena,

which divides the central and eastern cordilleras. After emerging from the mountains, the two rivers

become one and descend through marshy lowlands to the Caribbean. The area south and east of the

Andean ranges is largely composed of river plains divided among the effluents of the Orinoco and

Amazon rivers. Open plains immediately adjoin the mountains, but as the distance from the cordillera

increases, the plains give way to largely uninhabited and unexplored jungle. The Pacific coastal area

is also characterized by jungle vegetation. Principal rivers on the Pacific coast include the Baudó, San

Juan, and Patía a Oriental (eastern).

Colombia's climatic variations are determined by altitude, and seasons are periods of lesser or

greater rainfall, with little or no temperature change. The country may be divided vertically into four

regions. The hot country, or tierra caliente, is the tropical zone where the mean annual temperature is

24°c to 27°c. The temperate zone, or tierra templada, where the average year-round temperature is

about 18°c. The cold country, or tierra fría, with temperatures averaging a little over 13°c.

Rainfall is heaviest on the west coast and in the Andean area; rainy and dry

seasons, or "winter" and "summer," generally alternate in three-month cycles, as in Bogotá, where

precipitation occurs most heavily and consistently during the periods of April to June and October to

December. Northern areas have only one long rainy season, from May through October.

More than 45,000 species of plants have been identified in Colombia. Animal life is abundant,

especially in the tropical area. Among carnivorous species are puma, a variety of smaller cats,

raccoons, and Herbivores include the tapir, peccary, deer, and large tropical rodents. Sloths,

anteaters, opossums, and several types of monkeys are also found.

Colombia has mountains, jungles, modern and colonial cities, and resorts on both the Pacific Ocean

and the Caribbean Sea to visit; celebrate different festivities some of them are the flowers festival,

Barranquilla’s carnival, Balacks and whites carnival, the cali’s fair etc.

Colombia.

If you want to know the Caribbean go to Cuba or Dominican Republic

If you want to know the pacific visit Chile.

If you want to know the Andean travel top Ecuador.

If yo want to knoe the amazon region visits Brazil.

If you want to know the the pre-columbian cultures go to Mexico or Peru.

But if you want to see all those things together in one country travels to Colombia.