Colombia

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How to spot Colombia from satellite imagery

Colombia is the only South American country with coastlines on both the Caribbean and the Pacific. It covers 1.14 million square kilometres, making it the fourth-largest country on the continent, and contains an extraordinary variety of landscapes within a fairly compact footprint. The Andes split into three parallel ranges as they enter Colombia from Ecuador, separated by two great river valleys (the Magdalena and the Cauca). East of the Andes, the country flattens into the Llanos grasslands and the Amazon rainforest. To the north, the Caribbean coastal plain runs west to the isolated Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. To the west, the Pacific coast is one of the wettest places on Earth.

For geography games, Colombia is a high-value country to learn because each of these regions has a distinctive aerial signature, and the country covers a large enough area to appear often in global rotations. This guide walks through the cues that lock Colombia in fast.