page_title: Caribbean region of Colombia
section_title: Administrative divisions
hierarchical_section_title: Caribbean region of Colombia / Administrative divisions
caption_attribution_description: Image of Barranquilla, Colombia
context_page_description: The Caribbean region of Colombia or Caribbean coast region is in the north of Colombia and is mainly composed of eight departments located contiguous to the Caribbean. The area covers a total land area of 132,288 km², including the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina in the Caribbean Sea and corresponding to approximately 1/10 of the total territory of Colombia. The Caribbean region of Colombia is home to approximately 9 million residents according to the Colombian Census 2005.
  The Caribbean region coast extends from the Gulf of Urabá to the Gulf of Venezuela. Straddling the coast are Colombia's two main Atlantic port cities of Barranquilla and Cartagena. The administration of the region is covered by eight department governments: Atlántico, Bolívar, Cesar, Sucre, Córdoba, Magdalena, La Guajira and San Andrés and Providencia. These 8 departments also cover approximately 182 municipalities, 1093 corregimientos and 493 caserios according to the 2005 Census by DANE Colombia. Most of its inhabitants speak a dialect of Caribbean Spanish with variations within its subregions.
context_section_description: Eight departments form the Caribbean region:
  Partial territory pertaining to:
  Antioquia Department: in the Gulf of Urabá most of the territory of the subregion of Urabá Antioquia.
  Chocó Department: covering a small territory in the Gulf of Urabá. Chocó is the only Department of Colombia with coasts on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
caption: View of Barranquilla's skyline, the Magdalena river flowing into the Caribbean sea in the background. Barranquilla is considered the capital of the Colombian Caribbean
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