{"id":47619,"date":"2026-06-28T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47619"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:08:05","slug":"colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Colombia Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Prime Minister of India congratulated Abelardo de la Espriella on his victory in the Colombian presidential elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Colombia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a country located in the northwestern part of <\/span><b>South America.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is known as the <\/span><b>\u201cGateway of South America\u201d,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> strategically located in the northwest, <\/span><b>connecting South America with Central and North America.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bordering Countries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is bordered by<\/span><b> Panama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the northwest; by <\/span><b>Ecuador<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><b> Peru<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the south; by <\/span><b>Venezuela<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the east, and by <\/span><b>Brazil <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the southeast.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Maritime Borders:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is also bounded by the <\/span><b>Caribbean Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the north and by the <\/span><b>Pacific Ocean in the west.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a member of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-organisation-for-economic-co-operation-and-development-oecd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (OECD) from 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bogot\u00e1.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Colombia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The climate is tropical along the coasts and eastern plains, and cooler in the highlands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Peak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its highest point is <\/span><b>Pico Cristobal Colon.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Major rivers include the Magdalena, Amazon, and Orinoco.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural Resources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is rich in natural resources like petroleum, natural gas, coal, and gold.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/pm-modi-congratulates-abelardo-de-la-espriella-on-colombia-poll-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DD News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about Colombia&#8217;s location, neighbouring countries, maritime borders, capital Bogot\u00e1, and its role as the Gateway of South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":94571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-colombia","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110302,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47619\/revisions\/110302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}