The Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia with 1,122 municipalities (municipios). Each one of them is led by a mayor (alcalde) elected by popular vote and represents the maximum executive government official at a municipality level under the mandate of the governor of their department which is a representative of all municipalities in the department; municipalities are grouped to form departments. The municipalities of Colombia are also grouped in an association called the Federación Colombiana de Municipios (Colombian Federation of Municipalities), which functions as a union under the private law and under the constitutional right to free association to defend their common interests. Categories Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 the municipalities have the categories listed below: Amazonas Department The Department of Amazonas is formed by 2 municipalities which are Leticia and Puerto Nariño; and by "department corregimientos" which is a special combined functions between a presidential power and a corregimiento. The reason for this classification is that the large territory is mostly inhospitable, inhabited only by indigenous peoples and within the Amazon rainforest. Municipalities Leticia Puerto Nariño Antioquia Department Arauca Department Atlántico Department Bogotá, Capital District Bogotá is divided into localities (localidades): Bolívar Department Boyacá Department Caldas Department Caquetá Department Casanare Department Cauca Department Cesar Department Chocó Department Córdoba Department Cundinamarca Department La Guajira Department Albania Barrancas Dibulla Distracción El Molino Fonseca Hatonuevo La Jagua del Pilar Maicao Manaure Riohacha San Juan del Cesar Uribia Urumita Villanueva Guainía Department Barranco Minas Cacahual Inirida La Guadalupe Morichal Nuevo Pana Pana Puerto Colombia San Felipe Guaviare Department Calamar El Retorno Miraflores San José del Guaviare Huila Department Magdalena Department Meta Department Nariño Department Norte de Santander Department Putumayo Department Quindío Department Armenia Buenavista Calarcá Circasia Córdoba Filandia Génova La Tebaida Montenegro Pijao Quimbaya Salento Risaralda Department Apía Balboa Belén de Umbría Dosquebradas Guática La Celia La Virginia Marsella Mistrató Pereira Pueblo Rico Quinchía Santa Rosa de Cabal Santuario San Andrés and Providencia Department Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands San Andrés Santander Department Sucre Department Tolima Department Valle del Cauca Department Vaupés Department Municipalities Caruru Mitú Taraira Department Corregimientos Pacoa Papunahua Yavarate Municipal Corregimientos Acaricuara Villa Fátima Vichada Department Cumaribo (including the former department corregimientos of San José de Ocune and Santa Rita) La Primavera Puerto Carreño Santa Rosalía Districts