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San Andres and Providencia are located northeast of Colombia, the Caribbean Sea, 12 ° 00 'and 16 ° 30' North latitude and 78 ° 00 'and 82 ° 00'
longitude Ovest.L 'archipelago of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina 480 Mill Marina is just off the coast Colombiana.San Andres.

Geography

Extending inland archipelago of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina 'of 44 km2 and its territorial waters extend for 349,800 Km2.L' Accounts with several small islands such as atolls Cayo Bolivar, Albunquerque, Roncador, Quitasueño ...

Economy

The economy of San Andres and 'based primarily on tourism and trade, and is complemented with agriculture and artisanal fishing, which is not sufficient for fabisogno island, creates a great paradox, namely l 'importation of fish from the Colombian coast.

History

According to some historians, the islands of the archipelago of San Andres were discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 while sailing from the Coast Gamaica Rica.In honor Islabel gave to the Catholic archipelago known as "el Jardines de la Reina." A few years after the arrival of Christopher Columbus, in 1595 the Spaniards landed on the island, but given the absence of gold and silver he was not given much importance. Instead Santa Catiline due to its location startegica was fortified by them to defend attivitta 'trade of the Atlantic Coast and Central America.L' island of Providencia was called "Old Providence" (Old Providence) but more 'came later with the ribbattezzata name Abacoa.Nel 1633, came the first slaves brought by the Spaniards, blacks, and they began the plantations of tobacco and various cotone.Durante the sixteenth century English pirates such as Francis Drake, sent by the English Crown to attack the archipelago without pero 'able to take over the isole.Va Exception made for the pirate Henry Morgan who managed to occupy the island for 19 years from the 1670.Dopo the independence of the metropolis, with the "Constution de Cucuta" in 1821, the 'archipelago was proclaimed as "Canton de la isla de San Andres" under the state government Cartagena.Nel 1912, San Andres acquired the status of "Intendencia" 52.Finalmente thanks to the law on July 4, 1991, the National Constituent Assembly delivery to the Constitution, the creation of the department of San Andres and Providencia, San Andres designate as capital
Population
The departamento counts with two towns: The capital, San Andres, and Providencia.La its population in 2000 was 73,465 inhabitants.

"San Andres y Providencia." Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2006 [DVD]. Microsoft Corporation, 2005.