Ministry of Culture (Colombia)

Ministry of Culture

Ministerio de Cultura
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Ministry overview
Formed	7 August 1997
Preceding Ministry	Colombian Institute of Culture
Headquarters	Palacio Echeverry Carrera 8 № 8-43 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 04°35′47.36″N 74°04′40.03″W / 4.5964889°N 74.0777861°W
Annual budget	COP$256,723,246,372 (2012)[1] COP$356,394,560,988 (2013)[2] COP$354,451,666,369 (2014)[3]
Ministry executives	Mariana Garcés Córdoba, Minister María Claudia López Sorzano, Deputy Minister
Website	www.mincultura.gov.co

The Ministry of Culture (Spanish: Ministerio de Cultura) is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia charged with preserving, promoting, and encouraging the growth, free expression and understanding of the culture of Colombia in all its multi-ethnic forms.

Ministers

Period	Minister
1997-1998	Ramiro Eduardo Osorio Fonseca
1998-1999	Alberto Casas Santamaría
1999-2000	Juan Luis Mejía Arango
2000-2001	Consuelo Araújo Noguera
2001-2002	Araceli Morales López
2002-2006	María Consuelo Araújo Castro
2006-2007	Elvira Cuervo de Jaramillo
2007-2010	Paula Marcela Moreno Zapata
2010-present	Mariana Garcés Córdoba

References

1. Colombia, Congress of (14 December 2011). "Ley 1485 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (48,283): 14. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
2. Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (48,640): 13. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
3. Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (Bogotá) (49,001): 28. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 8 January 2014.