Colombia

Colombia The northernmost country in South America, Colombia was a Spanish colony from the founding of the city of Santa Marta in 1526 until gaining independence in 1819. Nearly 300 years of Spanish rule left a strong social hierarchy influenced by ancestry, education, skin color, and geography that exists to some extent to the present day. Colombia’s population is primarily of mixed heritage mestizo, mulatto, and zambo (African and Indian ancestry), and of European, Indian, and African…