Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located in the northwestern region of South America. It is constituted in a unitary, social and democratic state of law whose form of government is presidential. This republic is organized politically in 32 decentralized departments and the capital District of Bogota, seat of the national government. Including Malpelo Island, Roncador Cay, and Banco Serrana, the country covers an area of ​​1 141 748 km².3 It claims as territorial sea the area until 12 nautical miles away, 4 maintaining a border dispute with Venezuela and Nicaragua. 12 13 It limits the east with Venezuela and Brazil, the south with Peru and Ecuador and the northwest with Panama; In terms of maritime boundaries, borders Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea, and with Panama, Costa Rica and Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. It is the only South American nation that has coasts in the Pacific Ocean and access to the Atlantic Ocean through the Caribbean Sea, where it has several islands such as the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina.