914 to 1,523 m: 39
under 914 m: 12 (2004 est.)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 39

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 879
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 34
under 914 m: 572 (2004 est.)
914 to 1,523 m: 272

Heliports:
1 (2003 est.)

Military Colombia

Military branches:
Army (Ejercito Nacional), Navy (Armada Nacional, including Naval
Aviation, Marines, and Coast Guard), Air Force (Fuerza Aerea
Colombiana)

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 24 months (2004)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 11,252,027 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 7,495,462 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 392,656 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$3.3 billion (FY01)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3.4% (FY01)

Transnational Issues Colombia

Disputes - international:
Nicaragua filed a claim against Honduras in 1999 and against
Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over disputed maritime boundary
involving 50,000 sq km in the Caribbean Sea, including the
Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank;
maritime boundary dispute with Venezuela in the Gulf of Venezuela;
Colombian drug activities penetrate Peruvian border area; the
continuing civil disorder in Colombia has created a serious refugee
crisis in neighboring states, especially Ecuador

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 2,730,000 - 3,100,000 (conflict between government and FARC;
drug wars) (2004)

Illicit drugs:
illicit producer of coca, opium poppy, and cannabis; world's
leading coca cultivator (cultivation of coca in 2002 was 144,450
hectares, a 15% decline since 2001); potential production of opium
between 2001 and 2002 declined by 25% to 91 metric tons; potential
production of heroin declined to 11.3 metric tons; the world's
largest processor of coca derivatives into cocaine; supplier of
about 90% of the cocaine to the US market and the great majority of
cocaine to other international drug markets; important supplier of
heroin to the US market; active aerial eradication program; a
significant portion of non-US narcotics proceeds are either
laundered or invested in Colombia through the black market peso
exchange

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