The
Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the
Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the
departments of Colombia with 1,102
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.