Municipalities of Colombia

The municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia, with 1,104 municipalities. Each one of them is led by a mayor elected by popular vote and represents the maximum executive government official at a municipality level under the mandate of the governor of their department which is a representative of all municipalities in the department; municipalities are grouped to form departments.
The municipalities of Colombia are also grouped in an association called the Federación Colombiana de Municipios, which functions as a union under the private law and under the constitutional right to free association to defend their common interests.

Categories

Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 the municipalities have the categories listed below:

Category	Population	Revenues ICLD
Special category:	500,001	400,000 and over
First category:	100,001 - 500,000	100,000 - 400,000
Second category:	50,001 - 100,000	50,000 - 100,000
Third category:	30,001 - 50,000	30,000 - 50,000
Fourth category:	20,001 - 30,000	25,000 - 30,000
Fifth category:	10,001 - 20,000	15,000 - 25,000
Sixth category:	0 - 10,000	15,000

Amazonas Department">Amazonas (Colombian department)">Amazonas Department

Amazonas Department is composed of two municipalities, Leticia and Puerto Nariño, and by department corregimientos, which have special combined functions between a presidential power and a corregimiento. The reason for this classification is that the large territory is mostly inhospitable, inhabited only by Indigenous [peoples in Colombia|indigenous peoples], and within the Amazon rainforest.
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