2021 in Colombia

Events in the year 2021 in Colombia.

Incumbents

January 5 – General Luis Fernando Navarro says that illegal armed groups lost 5,120 members in 2020. The number includes deaths, capture, and desertions. He said the National Liberation Army still has 2,450 members and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has 2,500.
January 17 – Scientists say the cocaine hippos in the Magdalena river basin are breeding voraciously and are an increasing menace so they must be culled.
January 25
* FARC changes its name to Comunes.
* Notorious paramilitary commander, drug trafficker, and sexual abuser of young girls Hernán Giraldo Serna finishes his sentence in the United States and returns to Colombia.
January 29 – 647 Haitian nationals, 23 Cubans, and 19 migrants from African countries are stranded on a beach in Necoclí, Antioquia Department, hoping to pass through the Darién Gap to Panama and, eventually, the United States.
January 31 – Seven adults and seven children are killed and 16 people are missing after two boats collide near Tumaco, Nariño Department.

February 8 – Cuba warns of an attack on Bogotá by the ELN in the "next few days." Mayor Claudia López Hernández and Defense Minister Diego Molano Vega say they take the threat seriously.

March 3 – Ten former members of FARC are killed in a military bombing on Calamar, Guaviare. Three "dissidents" are captured.
March 10 – A 26-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter are killed in a landslide in Siloé, Cali.
March 27 – A car bomb explodes in Corinto, Cauca, injuring eleven. A later report indicates 43 were injured.
March 30 – The government sets up a camp in Arauquita, Arauca, Arauca for 4,700 refugees from Apure, Venezuela.

September 27 -– Gásper, a rescue dog at the Bogotá Fire Department's Puente Aranda station, goes missing during a search operation at Guadalupe Hill. His disappearance receives much local, national news coverage and sympathy from the public. He is found 2 days later on the 29th.

1 January – Pablo Hernández, racing cyclist.
2 January – Laura Weinstein, transexual activist; respiratory complications.
11 January – Luis Adriano Piedrahita, 74, Roman Catholic bishop and theologian; COVID-19;
12 January – Álvaro Mejía, long-distance runner.
14 January – Antún Castro Urrutia, 74, musician and actor.
15 January – Gildardo García, chess player.
21 January – Calixto Avena, 77, footballer; COVID-19.
26 January – Carlos Holmes Trujillo, 69, politician, Defense Minister; COVID-19.
27 January – Bertulfo Álvarez, 69, guerrilla fighter.

2 February
* Héctor Epalza Quintero, 80, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Buenaventura.
* Yordan Guetio, social activist in Corinto, Cauca; murdered.
17 February – Beder Guerra Gutiérrez, 67, journalist.
21 February – Mireya Arboleda, 92, classical pianist.
23 February – Herbin Hoyos, 53, journalist and broadcaster who was in exile in Spain; COVID-19.
February 25 – Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, 82, archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cali ; COVID-19.
28 February – Jorge Oñate, 71, vallenato singer; complications from COVID-19.