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Colombia ( / k ə ˈ l ʌ m b i ə / kə- LUM -biə or / k ə ˈ l ɒ m b i ə / kə- LOM -biə ; Spanish: [koˈlombja] ), officially the Republic of Colombia ( Spanish : República de Colombia ), is a country situated in the northwest of South America , bordered to the northwest by Panama ; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil ; to the south by Ecuador and Peru ; and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica , Nicaragua , Honduras , Jamaica , Dominican Republic and Haiti . It is a unitary , constitutional republic
The territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca , Quimbaya , and Tairona . The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada , with its capital at Bogotá . Independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 " Gran Colombia " had collapsed with the secession of Venezuela and Ecuador. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada . The new nation