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Straddling the coast are Colombia's two main Atlantic port cities of Barranquilla and Cartagena. [3] The administration of the region is covered by eight department governments: Atlántico , Bolívar , Cesar , Sucre , Córdoba , Magdalena , La Guajira and San Andrés and Providencia .
The Republic of Colombia is situated largely in the north-west of South America, with some territories falling within the boundaries of Central America.It is bordered to the north-west by Panama; to the east by Brazil and Venezuela; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; [1] and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
Colombia is the only country in South America that has coastlines on the two largest seas in the world (the Atlantic Ocean, in its arm of the Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean, the largest in the world). That is why its maritime borders exceed even its land borders in extension and number of neighbours.
Barranquilla (Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [baraŋˈkiʝa] ⓘ) is the capital district of the Atlántico department in Colombia.It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port [5] in the Caribbean coast region; as of 2018, it had a population of 1,206,319 [6] [2] making it Colombia's fourth-most populous city after Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali.
Caribbean region of Colombia; Atlantic Canada; ... Atlantic Coast Conference, a collegiate athletic conference on the Atlantic Coast of the United States;
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.