2013 in Colombia

The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.

Incumbents

1 January – 13 FARC members are killed in an airstrike by the Colombian military.
19 January – A drug lord named Amaury Smith Pomare, who had long been wanted by the police, is arrested at his villa on the Atlantic coast of Honduras.
20 January – FARC rebels dynamite two southern oil pipelines and planted a bomb on the top coal exporter's northern railway after the end of a rebel ceasefire.
22 January – FARC rebels dynamite two southern oil pipelines and planted a bomb on the top coal exporter's northern railway after the end of a rebel ceasefire.

9 February – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia, causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.
25 February – Coffee growers of the country start a labour strike protesting the situations in which coffee growing is practiced.

Nohra Padilla, a pioneer and executive director of the Association of Recyclers of Bogotá, was awarded the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for her contribution to waste management and recycling in Colombia.

5 May – A ceremony commemorating the first sacred indigenous land to be designated under a new protected land status occurs, formally transferring Jaba Tañiwashkaka in La Guajira to the Kogi people.

10 June – The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.

20 July – government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
22 July – The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute.

19 August – An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.

12 October – A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.

9 December – Gustavo Petro, mayor of Bogotá, is removed from office and banned from re-taking it for fifteen years, due to a failing city cleaning policy promoted by him.
14 December – A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.