2016 in Colombia

Decades:	1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s;
See also:	Other events of 2016; Timeline of Colombian history;

Events in the year 2016 in Colombia.

Incumbents

5-21 August – Colombia at the 2016 Summer Olympics: 147 athletes representing Colombia compete in 23 sports, winning three gold, two silver, and three bronze medals.^{[citation needed]}

2 October – 2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum: a referendum aiming to ratify a final agreement on ending the conflict between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fails, with 50.2% of votes against it and 49.8% in favor.
7 October – the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos.

28 November – LaMia Flight 2933: a charter flight from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia to Medellín crashes into a mountain near La Unión, Antioquia. 71 people are killed, including members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense.
30 November – Congress ratifies a revised peace accord with the FARC.

23 March – Gloria Galeano Garcés, botanist and agronomist (b. 1958)^{[citation needed]}
31 March – Aníbal Alzate, footballer (b. 1933)

3 April – Phanor Arizabaleta-Arzayus, criminal (b. 1937).^{[citation needed]}
11 April – Édgar Perea, politician and football commentator (b. 1934)^{[citation needed]}
17 April – Luis Horacio Gomez González, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1958)^{[citation needed]}
2 May – Fernando Soto Aparicio, poet, storyteller, playwright, novelist, librettist, and screenwriter (b. 1933)^{[citation needed]}
20 June – Julio Rojas Buendía, accordionist (b. 1958)
16 August – Jorge García Isaza, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1928)^{[citation needed]}
27 October – Nelson Pinedo, singer (b. 1928)^{[citation needed]}
18 December – Gustavo Quintero, singer-songwriter (b. 1939)^{[citation needed]}

↑ "Colombia decide el próximo 2 de octubre en referéndum si avala el acuerdo de paz con las FARC". El Mundo (in Spanish). 25 August 2016. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
↑ Casey, Nicholas (7 October 2016). "Colombia's President, Juan Manuel Santos, Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
↑ Phillips, Dom; Schmidt, Samantha; Murphy, Brian (29 November 2016). "Tragedy of huge proportions: Plane with a championship-bound Brazilian soccer team crashes into mountainside". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
↑ "Colombia's congress approves historic peace deal with FARC rebels". Washington Post. 30 November 2016.
↑ "Bishop Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, S.M.M. †". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
↑ Juan Carlos Piedrahita (2016-03-07), "Eliseo Herrera Junco (1925–2016)", El Espectador (in Spanish), retrieved 2025-05-15
↑ "Colombia – "Thanks, Fr Javier, you changed our lives!". A memory of Fr de Nicolò". www.infoans.org. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
↑ "Murió el 'Mocho' Alzate mundialista con Colombia en Chile 62". www.sinchi.org.co (in Spanish). 1 April 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
↑ "Julio Rojas: el aniversario 65 del acordeonero de Gabo" [Julio Rojas: the 65th anniversary of Gabo's accordionist], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), 2024-06-24, retrieved 2025-09-12

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21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

v t e 2016 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands