Capítulo General 2007. Orden de Predicadores. Bogotá 2007.

The Republic of Colombia, receives its name in honor of the discoverer of América Cristóbal Colón; it is located in the northwest corner of South America, and has costs in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It also has jurisdiction on the Amazon river and that is the reason it has been called “Homeland of Three Seas."

Its capital is Bogotá that conforms the Capital District and it is also the capital of the department of Cundinamarca; it is a metropolitan area with more than eight million inhabitants, divided in 20 towns and it is the fourth more populated and important city of South America. The National Government's main headquarters is in the city.

The name Bogotá has origin in the indigenous word Bacatá, name of the capital of the Zipas, which means “fence outside of the farm". The town also received the nickname of Muequetá (field or savanna of the farm") and that of Funza (powerful male"). In fact in territory of the current municipality of Funza, neighbor from Bogotá, and probably in its sidewalk The Cacique, was the head of the population of Bacatá

Area	1.141.748 square kilometers of land 928.660 square kilometers of sea areas
Population	43.834.115 inhabitants
Administrative Organitation	32 Departments and a Capital Distrit (Bogotà), turistic and cultural district of Cartagena de Indias, turistic cultural and historic district of Santa Marta and the special district, industrial and port district of Barranquilla.
Languaje	Spanish
Religion	Free worship but the mayority of the population is catholic.
Currency	Peso
Economic Allies	Andean Community of Nations with Perù, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. Grupo de los Tres (Group of the three ) with Mexico And Venezuela Sistema Econòmico Latinoamericano (Latin American Economic System), Sela, formed by 25 more countries Pacto de Cooperaciòn Amazònica.

The predominant religion in Colombia is the Catholic, 92% of the national population affirm to profess the Catholicism or are registered as Catholic, but in that same population there can be indifferent religious's groups. This calculations take into account the number of Catholic baptisms but not necessarily reflective the number of believers.

Until the constitution of 1991 the Catholicism was the official religion of the state, the country was consecrated to Jesus Sacred Heart and in a recurrent way the columnists use that fact to refer to “the country of the sacred heart". 8% of the remaining population make part of other religious communities as Protestants, or of Protestant origin, witness of Jehová, sects of Buddhist and Taoist origin, Muslims, Jews or natural religions, all with a minority representation

The ethnic diversity in Colombia is the result of the mixture of Indigenous Amerindians, Spanish colonists and African slaves, what gives place to a population of mestizos, white, mulattos and blacks, as well as to that of black and Amerindian, or zambo mixture. The proportions of the different ethnic groups vary flagrantly according to the region. Today, only 1% of the Colombians can approximately be identified totally as Amerindian taking the language as its base. Also Exists a minority presence, but not less important, of migrants of other ethnoses in Colombia like Arabs, Jews, chineses, and other European countries as Italy, England and Germany, as well as the United States and other Latin American countries (Ecuador, Argentina, Peru and the Antilles)

Colombia is the third more crowed country in Latin America, after Brazil and Mexico.