AREA AND POPULATION
771
departments, 3 intendencies and 6 commissaries was, according to tie census of 1918 I March 5), as follow* (the capitals in brackets) : —
- q. miles
Census Population, 1918
-
i
Mates
Females
Indians
Total
Department*.
Antioquia (MedelHn).
22,762
1 ■■• IM
426,246
—
823,226
Atlantico (Barranquilla)
1,008
64,064
•
—
185,792
Bolivar (Cartagena i
216,513
240,598
—
457,111
Boraca (Tutija)
16,400
311,300
24 2. 067
5,308
656..
Caldas (Manizales) .
216,041 •
212,096
—
428,137
Canca (Fopayan)
116,165
123,153
- »«
239,806
Cundinamarca (Bogota i .
8,046
M6,M?
423.905
—
809,452
H".:la iNeiva> ....
108,753
—
.328
.alena (Santa Maria,
100,542
—
204,386
Xarifio (Pasto) ....
167,260
173,505
—
340 "
Santamier ! r*)
117,204
121,950
• -
289,214
Santander Sur (Bacantmanga)
17,865
USiMl
—
439,161
Tnliuia (Ibague)
10,080
162,006
166,805
—
328,811
Valle(Cali) ...
132,792
138,848
—
271,640
Intendtneie*.
Choco (Qnibd6)
68,127
36,024
36,879
18,480
91,383
Meta (Viilaricentio)
—
6,473
5,198
22,400
14,071
San Andres y Provideneia
—
»V9M
2,987
—
5,953
Commiuarits.
Arauca (Araucai
_
3,613
3,237
660
7,510
Caqueta (Florencia)
—
-..■ 1
2,391
68,900
74.254
Goajira (San Antonio)
—
10,590
12,061
—
22,651
Putumayo (Mocoa) .
-■
3,665 477
3,505 278
33.600 5,600
Vaupes (Calamar) .
—
6,355
Vicbada (Vicliada) .
440,846
254
5,000
5,540
Grand Total .
2,745,748
2,941,307
■ ,43
5,847,491
On December 4, 1903, Panama asserted its independence and was formed into a separate Republic. On April 6, 1914, Colombia signed a treaty with the United States, at Bogota, agreeingto recognise the independence of Panama and receiving in return 25 million dollars (5 millions sterling) and certain rights in the Panama Canal zone. This Treaty was ratified by the United States Senate on April 20, 1921. (See Introduction of The Statesman's Year Book, 1915.) Most of the boundary line with Brazil is still undefined, and there are frontier difficulties with Peru. With Ecuador a boundary treat v was signed in 1917.
The capital, Bogota (census population on July 15, 1918, 143,994), lies 8,600 feet above the sea. The chief commercial towns are Barranquilla (66,107), connected with the coast at Puerto Colombia by 17 miles of railway ; Manizales (39,643) ; Cartagena (51,382) ; Medellin (79,146), a miniug centre; Cali (45.524) : Bncararnanja (-25,919) ; Cucuta (29,179), the last two being coffee centres.
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