Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, 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, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments. The Capital District of Bogotá is also the country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub. Other major urban areas include Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Villavicencio and Bucaramanga. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers and has a population of around 52 million. Its rich cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by the African diaspora, as well as with those of the various Indigenous civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is the official language, although Creole, English and 64 other languages are recognized regionally.
Claudia Isabel Palacios Giraldo is a Colombian journalist and newscaster. She is best known as the weekend news anchor on CNN en Español, a position she held from 2004 through 2012. She is currently both a news anchor on CM& Television in Colombia and a journalist for the Colombian magazine El Pueblo.
Semana is a weekly magazine in Colombia.
The Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, founded in 1963 by Jaime Jaramillo Uribe, is the academic journal of the Department of History of the National University of Colombia. It is funded by the Faculty of Human Sciences at the university's headquarters in Bogotá. Although it mainly publishes research on Colombian history, it also accepts research on Latin American and world history, as well as historiography. It has been recognised as the main publication of Colombian historical studies. Authors are national and international scholars.
The El Aro massacre was a massacre in Colombia which occurred on October 22, 1997, in the municipality of Ituango, Department of Antioquia. 15 individuals accused of being leftist supporters of FARC were massacred by paramilitary groups. Perpetrators also raped women, burned down 43 houses, stole cattle and forcibly displaced 900 people.
The Jamundí Massacre was a massacre perpetrated by a Colombian National Army elite unit known as the High Mountain Battalion which was then commanded by Colonel Byron Carvajal against an elite Colombian National Police counter-narcotics unit on May 22, 2006 in the municipality of Jamundí, Department of Valle del Cauca.
SoHo is a Colombian-based men's magazine founded in 1999 by Isaac Lee and others. In addition to Colombia, it is distributed in Ecuador, Panama, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica and Peru. It is the second largest magazine by circulation in Colombia after TVyNovelas.
Rafael Pineda Ponce was a Honduran professor and politician in the Liberal Party of Honduras and President of the National Congress of Honduras from 1998 to 2002.
Revista de Libros is a Spanish-language bi-monthly literary review magazine. The magazine was a print publication from 1996 to 2011. It was restarted as an online-only magazine in 2013. In 2016 the print edition was also started.
White Colombians are the Colombian descendants of European and Middle Eastern people living in Colombia. According to the 2018 census, 87.58% of Colombians do not identify with any ethnic group, thus being either white or mestizo, which are not categorized separately.
Andrea Marcela Escobar Duque is a Colombian actress, television hostess, and model.
Carlos Echeverri Cortés was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as ad interim fifth Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, and as Ambassador of Colombia to Peru and Mexico. During his ambassadorship in Peru he became an enemy of the administration of President Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti for granting political asylum to the politician Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, an action that drove the Peruvian Government to mount a five-year struggle harassing embassy staff and personnel, and forming a military blockade around the Colombian Embassy where Haya was housed, this because Lima had refused to grant safe conduct for Haya to leave the country and Ambassador Echeverri refused to give him up.
Season two of Mexico's Next Top Model, the Mexican adaptation of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model, aired on Sony Entertainment Television from August to November 2011. The show was hosted by Mexican model Elsa Benítez, with the judging panel of the previous season remaining unchanged.
Jet-Set was a Colombian-based fortnightly magazine profiling the glamorous, compelling and sometimes scandalous lives and happenings of Colombian and international celebrities, politicians, artists, and those of the elite and high-society, that is to say, those in the jet set. The magazine heavily relies on engaging editorials and vivid photographs depicting the stylish fashions worn, the exciting events attended, and the extravagant home décor of the rich and famous to captivate its readers' imagination.
Season five of Mexico's Next Top Model, the Mexican adaptation of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model, aired on Sony Entertainment Television from September to December 2014. The show was once again hosted by Mexican model Jaydy Michel. The panel of the previous season remained largely unchanged, save for the addition of creative director Oscar Madrazo as one of the main judges, with judge Antonio González de Cosío serving as the show's creative director in his place.
Vogue México y Latinoamérica is a Mexican/Latin American fashion magazine which is an offshoot of the American Vogue magazine. The magazine is published by Condé Nast Mexico y Latinoamérica. The magazine is published in Mexico as Vogue México and in the United States and the rest of Latin America as Vogue Latinoamérica.
Catalina Maya Arango, known professionally as Catalina Maya, is a Colombian model, broadcaster and businesswoman.
Miss Grand Colombia 2022 was the second Miss Grand Colombia pageant, held at the Hotel Grand Park in Bogotá, Colombia, on June 24, 2022.
"Blanca Mujer" is a song by Puerto Rican singer Draco Rosa from his fourth studio album Vagabundo (1996) and twelfth studio album Vida (2013). It was released on 4 February 2013 through Sony Music Latin as a promotional single featuring Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. Another duet version of the song was released on 26 July 2023 by Rosa featuring Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade. The song is written by Draco Rosa. It is a rock en español, Latin pop, alternative rock and indie rock song, with lyrics about life and death.
