2009 in Colombia
Events in the year 2009 in Colombia.
Incumbents
Events
February
- February - FARC frees a former provincial governor along with five other high-profile hostages since 2001.
March
November
- November - President Alvaro Uribe signs a deal giving the US military access to seven military bases.
December
- December - Marxist rebel groups intend to stop fighting each other and focus on attacking the Colombian armed forces.
- December - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez orders 15,000 troops to the Colombian border.
Deaths
- 10 January - Liliana Lozano, 30, Colombian actress and beauty queen, shot.
- 16 March - Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales.
- 13 May - Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador.
- 30 May - Alexander Obregón, 32, Colombian footballer, car accident.
- 5 June - Helena Benítez de Zapata, 93, songwriter, politician, teacher, and journalist.
- 18 July - Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot.
- 29 August - Gustavo Martínez Frías, 74, Colombian archbishop of Nueva Pamplona.
- 11 September - Julio Bovea, 75, musician.
- 20 September - Herman Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, traffic collision.
- 1 November - Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto.
- 6 November - Abraham Escudero Montoya, 69, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmira.
- 21 December - Jaime Agudelo, 84, Colombian comedian, respiratory failure.
- 22 December - Luis Francisco Cuéllar, 69, Colombian politician, Governor of Caqueta, assassination.