This presentation contains interesting facts about Colombia,its geographical position,people and others.

1. Presentation
“The Republic of
colombia”
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2. Motto :
"Libertad y Orden"= liberty and order.

3. Geographical position and basic
facts:
 Capital(and the largest
city) - Bogotá
 Official language –
Spanish
 President -
Juan Manuel Santos
 Currency – Peso
 The main ethnic groups:
58% Mestizo
20% White
14% Mulatto

4. What is Colombia famous
for?

5. Places to visit!
 Art Galleries
 Museums
 Ancient Churches open to tourists
 Planetariums

6. Gold Museum ,Bogota.

8. Lost city of gold ‘El

9. The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira

10. colombian
coffee Was introduse in
early 1800s .
Colombia
produces 12% of
the coffee in the
world,second
only to Brazil.
“Eje cafetero”

11. famous people
Shakira - winner of numerous awards worldwide and recognized as
one of the most successful artists of the last decade .

12. Fernando González
He was a very influential and prominent Colombian
existentialist philosopher, writer, politician and lawyer who is
considered the most original Colombian thinker of the 20th
Century and the most read dead Colombian author in the
present .

13. Fernando Botero
The works of this Colombian painter , who once
dreamed of becoming a bullfighter, now grace
museums and cities all around the world.

14. Interesting Facts
 On its territory live 593
extinct animals
 Columbians yearly drink 400
billion cups of coffee
 It holds the first place by the
number of species of orchids
(3500) and birds (1754).
 Yearly country produce more
then 545 tons of cocaine

15. Festival of flowers

16. Thank you for attention!
Prepared and presented by
Malaki Marina!