Constitución en Inglés

213 Corte Constitucional de Colombia Chapter II Departmental Regime T he National Congress may decree the formation of new departments as long as the requirements mandated in the Organic Law of Territorial Organization are fulfilled and once the procedures, studies, and popular consultation mandated by this Constitution are verified. Departments enjoy autonomy in the administration of sectional matters as well as the planning and promotion of economic and social development within their territory and within the limits established by the Constitution. Departments exercise functions of administration,coordination,complementarity with municipal action, intermediation between the Nation and the municipalities, and the provision of services specified by the Constitution and laws. A law shall regulate matters connected with the exercise of thepowers that theConstitution grants departments. In each department there shall be a popularly elected political-administrative body known as the departmental assembly, which shall be composed of no fewer than eleven (11) nor ARTICLE 297 ARTICLE 298 ARTICLE 299