Colombia

· Area: 1,141,748 square km
· Capital City: Bogota, D.C.
· Official Language: Spanish
· Currency: Peso colombiano
· Electricity: 110V, 60 Hz
· Time: GMT -5 hours.
· Frontiers: Panama, Venezuela, Peru & Ecuador.
· Passports & Visas: You are required to have an updated passport to enter Colombia. The requirements to get a visa are: passport, photographs, return ticket, document that certifies financial sufficiency, and reason to visit.
· Customs: Luggage is considered all articles owned by a visitor arriving with him/her or 30 days prior or 90 after his/her arrival. Besides the personal objects it can contain up to: 6 books, 6 magazines, 6 bottles of alcohol, 2 cameras, 2 electrodomestics, all luggage must not exceed the value of $1,500USD.

Weather in Colombia

Society & Culture

The Vallenato (Dance)

Other Links

• Tourism Promotion of Colombia www.turismocolombia.com
• Website of the FARC (They got website?) resistencianacional.org
• Maps of Colombia
• Colombia Journal www.colombiajournal.org