Official name:      “The Republic of Colombia “
Total area:           1´141.748 square Km
Currency:             Colombian peso
Official language: Spanish and a few other languages natives Indian dialects.
Population: 41.242.948 people reside inside the Colombian territory.

 

COLOMBIA STORY

I fell in love with you in one of my multiple trips, when I tripped over the yellow of your abundant Earth wealth, blue of the your seas and red one of the blood of those hearts that bark incessantly of love.
Taking a walk by several of the thirty and two departments that conform to you I found that there is nothing like the scent from the towns to guayaba mature or to coffee just done crossing the streets of some small city; the delight of dance under the shade of a hat vueltiao or a handle wood, and the pride to take terciao beautiful carriel.
That there is nothing like giving a orquídea to him to a beautiful woman, that of which some as Bolivar at the time of independence fell in love, while fought by the freedom of these forty and four million inhabitants of your ground.
I fell in love with you when I knew Villa de Leiva and San Agustín, when I crossed the walls of Cartagena and I saw the sky reflected in waters of the sea of San Andrés. I fell in love with you because there is nobody has the generosity of a boyacense, the tenacity of a santandereano or the joy of costeño, because there is nothing like the pastusos jokes or histories of the cachacos grandparents, because it enchants the smile of your children, the sensuality of your women and the force to me of your men.
Because in spite of the adversity always you have the opened arms to receive a stranger, because although you cry in silence by which they hate to you, always these arranged to pardon, because you are a beautiful mother country, for that reason I love to you.

Sincerely,  
The wind that is strained by the mountains and plains of your beautiful Colombian floor. 

 

LILIANA SERRANO.