Interesting Facts About Colombia

• Bogota is is the third highest city in the world.
• Colombia Holds the seventeenth position of the most mega diverse countries.
• There are no seasons throughout the year, there is sunlight every day.
• Twelve percent of the world´s coffee is produced in Colombia
• Bogota´s airport is the largest of Latin America.
• Colombia is very diverse in its´s population
• The highest peak of Colombia is Pico Cristobal Colon at 19,020 feet in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
• The total area of Colombia is approximately equal to the areas of Portugal, France and Spain put together.
• Colombia´s name was put in honor of Christopher Columbus.
• Colombia is the twenty sixth largest nation in the world.
• Colombia has the world´largest diversity of orchid species (3,500)
• Out of the 14,000 species of butterflies in the world about 3,000 of them are found in Colombia
• In Choco it rains 10,000 mm per year.
• Colombia has the second happiest population of the world.
• Colombia is the only South American country that has coast on both sides.
• The soap opera "Yo soy Betty, La fea" has been broadcasted in more than fifty countries.
• In the Colombian Amazons lives the Golden Arrow frog. It´s poison is the most lethal in the world.
• At the Sierra de la Macarena, runs the seven Color River.
• At Zipaquira, exists an underground church made within a salt mine.
• Colombia is the oldest democracy in Latin America
• Ninety five percent of the world´s emeralds come from Colombia
• there are eighty different indigenous groups in Colombia and they speak sixty four different languages.

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