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Colombia

1886 – present

Sovereign stateSouth America

Andean and Caribbean Republic of Colombia (Q739), the modern sovereign state — distinct from the 1831-1858 Republic of New Granada (Q630882).

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 4 sourced border frames

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Colombia — the shape you scrub through changes in 1886 · 1907 · 1922 · 1934.

Moments from the Chronicle

1903 Panama Panama secedes from Colombia (3 November); the US Canal Zone is carved by treaty days later.
1980 The Misak recover their land The Guambiano (Misak) of Silvia begin the modern "recuperación de la tierra," reclaiming hacienda lands and helping launch the Indigenous land movement of southwestern Colombia.

Further reading

Born in Blood and Fire John Charles Chasteen · 2000
Narrative history covering Colombia's 19th-21st century state evolution.
A New History of Modern Latin America Emeritus Department of History Lawrence A Clayton · 2017
A standard single-volume University of California Press survey of modern Latin America, giving the same broad regional context for the citing states and colonies.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · fiction
Macondo’s century — Colombia’s wars and banana boom refracted into myth.

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