Colombia

Colombians eat pig and rice and a lot of meat.

The one major gun law in colombia is that you cant have cocaine

Of course. It's a representative democracy, or a republic, just like the United States.

they are famous for the coca leaf

Columbia favorite sports and pastime, is skiing and snowboarding. There are lots of beautiful ski resorts and mountains to enjoy there.

Himno Nacional de la Republica de Colombia is the national anthem of Colombia. The anthem, commonly known as O Unfading Glory, was adopted in 1920.

Most of Columbia's 44,000,000 people live in the western half of the country. Columbia is one of the most urbanized countries in South America.

tall shade trees that prduce the famous coffee

Cali has a hot and humid climate but it is a very typical city in Colombia. The people are very welcoming there, and you will find places to shop.

Economy - overview:Colombia's economy has experienced positive growth over the past three years despite a serious armed conflict. The economy continues to improve in part because of austere government budgets, focused efforts to reduce public debt levels, an export-oriented growth strategy, an improved security situation in the country, and high commodity prices. Ongoing economic problems facing President URIBE range from reforming the pension system to reducing high unemployment, and to achieving congressional passage of a fiscal transfers reform; furthermore, new exploration is needed to offset declining oil production. However, the government's economic policy, democratic security strategy, and the signing of a free trade agreement with the US have engendered a growing sense of confidence in the economy, particularly within the business sector. GDP (purchasing power parity):$374.4 billion (2006 est.) GDP (official exchange rate):$106.8 billion (2006 est.) GDP - real growth rate:6.8% (2006 est.) GDP - per capita (PPP):$8,600 (2006 est.) GDP - composition by sector:agriculture: 12% industry: 35.2% services: 52.7% (2006 est.) Labor force:20.81 million (2006 est.) Labor force - by occupation:agriculture: 22.7% industry: 18.7% services: 58.5% (2000 est.) Unemployment rate:11.1% (2006 est.) Population below poverty line:49.2% (2005) Household income or consumption by percentage share:lowest 10%: 7.9% highest 10%: 34.3% (2004) Distribution of family income - Gini index:53.8 (2005) Inflation rate (consumer prices):4.3% (2006 est.) Investment (gross fixed):22.8% of GDP (2006 est.) Budget:revenues: $50.7 billion expenditures: $52.29 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.) Public debt:45.3% of GDP (2006 est.) Agriculture - products:coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp Industries:textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds

June 20: Independence Day

August 7: The battle of Boyacá

December 8: The celebration of Virgin Mary (the immaculate conception)

they play soccer witch is football

I'm not sure if there is one. Depends if you're talking about the city or country. Anyway, the country is as big as Texas, New Mexico and Arkansas combined.

nuts

1,138,910 SQ KM

Not much of either. There are several variations of Columbia (Arms, Gun Co, etc) on trade name shotguns made in the late 19th - early 20th century. Many imported from Belgium, some made by US companies like Crescent, Stevens, Davenport and sold in hardware stores for as little as $3. Most are not considered safe with modern ammunition and are usually valued as mantle decorations. A single shot may bring $25-$50 and a double barrel with large sidehammers could go as high as $250.

San Andres Island is located off the coast of Colombia, in the Caribbean Sea.

It belongs to Colombia.

Colombia uses the Latin alphabet for Spanish, just like all the other Spanish-speaking countries.

Alvaro Uribe Velez
Alvaro Uribe

It depends on the map. If it's showing strictly British Columbia or Canada, it lops everything that isn't Canada/BC off, same as the maps of the US that show ONLY the US, and just the line of the borders, no Canada or Mexico.

If it IS showing other territories, then the borders are drawn in on land for Alaska and the Panhandle (which is sometimes greyed out), same as with the main border with the States (also greyed out, if the map is focusing on Canada alone), and then some kind of demarcation (usually a dotted line, but sometimes simply the grey fill again on the non-Canadian bits) continues out into the Pacific to international waters, to show where the border is there. Everything on the southern side is Canadian; everything north of that line is US territory.

Alaskan maps may do things differently, but all the maps I've ever seen, as a resident of BC, either on paper or electronic, do it one of these two ways.

This map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bcmap.PNG and this map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/BC-relief.png/200px-BC-relief.png are the standard lopping-everything-else-off style.

This map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Skeena_Watershed.png/288px-Skeena_Watershed.png is an example of the other sort, defining the non-Canadian land and islands with a different colour (greyed out, here).

Hope that helps! :-)

NO it has so many dum restaurants there food is always cold it's so dicuisting

It was founded in 1538 and became capital in 1550 with the creation of the Real Audencia (the administrative body that represented the King of Spain).

American Independence Day (July 4) and Thanksgiving and

Christmas

i think it takes about 9 hours

Land of contrasts