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 AREA AND POPULATION

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departments, 3 intendencies and 6 commissaries was, according to tie census of 1918 I March 5), as follow* (the capitals in brackets) : —


 * q. miles

Census Population, 1918

-

i

Mates

Females

Indians

Total

Department*.

Antioquia (MedelHn).

22,762

1 ■■• IM

426,246

—

823,226

Atlantico (Barranquilla)

1,008

64,064

•

—

185,792

Bolivar (Cartagena i

216,513

240,598

—

457,111

Boraca (Tutija)

16,400

311,300

24 2. 067

5,308

656..

Caldas (Manizales).

216,041 •

212,096

—

428,137

Canca (Fopayan)

116,165

123,153



239,806

Cundinamarca (Bogota i.

8,046

M6,M?

423.905

—

809,452

H".:la iNeiva> ....

108,753

—

.328

.alena (Santa Maria,

100,542

—

204,386

Xarifio (Pasto) ....

167,260

173,505

—

340 "

Santamier ! r*)

117,204

121,950

• -

289,214

Santander Sur (Bacantmanga)

17,865

USiMl

—

439,161

Tnliuia (Ibague)

10,080

162,006

166,805

—

328,811

Valle(Cali) ...

132,792

138,848

—

271,640

Intendtneie*.

Choco (Qnibd6)

68,127

36,024

36,879

18,480

91,383

Meta (Viilaricentio)

—

6,473

5,198

22,400

14,071

San Andres y Provideneia

—

»V9M

2,987

—

5,953

Commiuarits.

Arauca (Araucai

_

3,613

3,237

660

7,510

Caqueta (Florencia)

—

-..■ 1

2,391

68,900

74.254

Goajira (San Antonio)

—

10,590

12,061

—

22,651

Putumayo (Mocoa).

-■

3,665 477

3,505 278

33.600 5,600

Vaupes (Calamar).

—

6,355

Vicbada (Vicliada).

440,846

254

5,000

5,540

Grand Total.

2,745,748

2,941,307

■ ,43

5,847,491

On December 4, 1903, Panama asserted its independence and was formed into a separate Republic. On April 6, 1914, Colombia signed a treaty with the United States, at Bogota, agreeingto recognise the independence of Panama and receiving in return 25 million dollars (5 millions sterling) and certain rights in the Panama Canal zone. This Treaty was ratified by the United States Senate on April 20, 1921. (See Introduction of The Statesman's Year Book, 1915.) Most of the boundary line with Brazil is still undefined, and there are frontier difficulties with Peru. With Ecuador a boundary treat v was signed in 1917.

The capital, Bogota (census population on July 15, 1918, 143,994), lies 8,600 feet above the sea. The chief commercial towns are Barranquilla (66,107), connected with the coast at Puerto Colombia by 17 miles of railway ; Manizales (39,643) ; Cartagena (51,382) ; Medellin (79,146), a miniug centre; Cali (45.524) : Bncararnanja (-25,919) ; Cucuta (29,179), the last two being coffee centres.

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