The+Republic+of+Colombia

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= My Country Facts = toc

Official country name:
The Republic of Colombia

Year that country joined the UN:
1945

People:
** 1. What are the people from the country called (i.e Mali-Malian, Spain-Spanish) ** The people of the country are called Colombian.

** 2. What is the official language? What other languages do people speak? ** In Colombia the official language is Spanish. They only speak Spanish en Colombia.

** 3. What is the most-practiced religion? ** The most practiced religion is Catholicism or Christianity of the Catholic Church.

** 4. How many people live in the country? ** 45.656.977 people live in Colombia.

** 1. What is the name of the leader of the country? **
The name of the leader of Colombia is Juan Manuel Santos.

** 2. What type of government is the country ruled by (i.e. monarchy, democracy, dictatorship?) ** It is a republican democracy

In Colombia There is the republican party and democrat party.
 * 3. What are the main political parties of the country (socialist party, communist party, green party, republicans, democrats, etc?) **

** 4. Was your country ever a Colony? If so, when did it gain its independence? ** Yes, Colombia was a colony from 1550 to 1810 that received their independence from Spain.

** 5. Who was the first president of the republic in the country? ** The first president of the republic in Colombia was Simon Bolívar from 1819 to 1830.

Geography:
** 1. Where is the country? (i.e. continent and region, for example Central Europe or North Africa ** Colombia is in South America.

** 2. What other nations border the country? ** The Nations that border Colombia are Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru.

** 3. What kind of landscapes does the country have? ** The landscape of Colombia is mountainous and plain.

** 4. Tell some of the Colombian mountains? ** Are many mountains in Colombia some of them are Alto de Nique, Azufral, Galeras, Guadalupe Hills…

Economy:
** 1. What is the most common sector of employment in the country (i.e. business, agriculture and farming, government jobs, etc) ** The most common sectors are agriculture, farming and mines. ** 2. What is the unemployment rate in your country (by percentaje)? ** The unemployment rate in Colombia is around the 11.2%

** 3. ** **In what position is Colombian economy situated?** Colombia has the 4th position in American economy.

**The most surprising thing I learned about my country was:** The number of people who live in Colombia and the first president of the republic, because I hear some of Simon Bolívar and I don´t know who was.

= My Predictions =

Trafficking of Species:
I don’t think that Colombia benefit economically from the trafficking of animals only some people that ignore the laws of the country and use the animals to sell them to other countries or killing them to use their hair as clothes to later sell to other people, because animal trafficking is totally prohibited. I think that the one is affected from the animal trafficking are the own country because changes the ecosystem from the animals can be produce many illnesses to the animals around them or to the own animal that is trafficked, if they use to kill them and use their hairs or the skins they are destroy the ecosystem, the only people that receive a positive effect are the people that do this. I think that some countries give money to other countries to provide the animal trafficking but I don’t think that they are obligated to do this. I think that CITES is a positive idea for the animals, because if some countries need money they can sell some animals but with some protection things to provide a change in the ecosystem or the illnesses that this animal can produce in others animals. To provide the animal trafficking I think that they had to created more animal reserves to all the animals and protected them inside the reserves give them food and protection for the people that want to kill them or trafficking with them like poachers. I don’t know many things that the traffickers can do if they doesn´t trafficking with animals, but I think that they can work in the cities or instead trafficking with animals work save them in the animal reserves. To stop the criminals that crossing borders with animals I think that the government need to put more security and protections in all the parts that the criminals can go.

Child Labour:
In some parts of the world the countries are less civilized so the people are more poor and need money to thing so the child when are teen they need to work for look after their families. And in other parts of the world, the people doesn’t have to work before de year of 18 o after because the people has more money. In my country there are many families very poor so the children has to go to work, not all the families are poor but a biggest part of the country yes. In my country the little boys has to work in mines or in agriculture because they are more strong and the girls usually works in shops that created clothes or things like that but sometimes boys and girls work together. To encourage the children to go to school the people can said that if they study they can work in best conditions and in best places so they receive more money and can help their families better. To help the families when the children labourers stop to working the people can give them some money each month to can eat food or to pay the things that the house need, etc. Are many groups of people that help the poor people to stop the child labour like UNICEF and many others that give food and money to the poor families and teach the children to help all the people they needed. = The Republic of Colombia's Position Paper (1st Draft) =