system+of+goverment+of+colombia+in+prehispanic+times

Pre-Colombian era Approximately 10,000 BC, [|hunter-gatherer] societies existed near present-day Bogotá (at "[|El Abra]" and "Tequendama") which traded with one another and with cultures living in the [|Magdalena River] Valley.[|[22]] Beginning in the first millennium BC, groups of [|Amerindians] developed the political system of "[|cacicazgos]" with a pyramidal structure of power headed by [|caciques]. Within Colombia, the two cultures with the most complex cacicazgo systems were the [|Tayronas] in the [|Caribbean Region], and the [|Muiscas] in the highlands around Bogotá, both of which were of the [|Chibcha] language family. The Muisca people are considered to have had one of the most developed political systems in South America, after the [|Incas].[|[23]]

Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization Attack to [|Cartagena de indias]. Spanish explorers made the first exploration of the Caribbean littoral in 1499 led by [|Rodrigo de Bastidas]. [|Christopher Columbus] navigated near the Caribbean in 1502. In 1508, [|Vasco Nuñez de Balboa] started the conquest of the territory through the region of Urabá. In 1513, he was the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean which he called //Mar del Sur// (or "Sea of the South") and which in fact would bring the Spaniards to [|Peru] and [|Chile]. The territory's main population was made up of hundreds of tribes of the [|Chibchan] and [|Carib], currently known as the Caribbean people, whom the [|Spaniards] conquered through warfare and alliances, while resulting disease such as [|smallpox], and the conquest and [|ethnic cleansing] itself caused a demographic reduction among the indigenous.[|[24]] In the sixteenth century, [|Europeans] began to bring slaves from Africa. Government Main article: [|Government][|of Colombia]See also: [|Colombian Constitutio][|n][| of 1991] Current President [|Álvaro Uribe]. The government of Colombia takes place within the framework of a [|presidential] [|representative democratic] [|republic] as established in the [|Constitution of 1991]. In accordance with the principle of [|separation of powers], government is divided into three branches: the executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch. The head of the executive branch is the [|President of Colombia] who serves as both [|head of state] and [|head of government], followed by the [|Vice President] and the [|Council of Ministers]. The president is elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms and is currently limited to a maximum of two such terms (increased from one in 2005). At the provincial level executive power is vested in [|department governors], [|municipal mayors] and local administrators for smaller administrative subdivisions, such as //corregidores// for //[|corregimientos]//.

Daniel salcedo and Juan felipe Cardona