[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":143},["ShallowReactive",2],{"country-en-colombia":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"country_code":131,"description":132,"extension":133,"federation":134,"flag":135,"lastUpdated":136,"meta":137,"navigation":138,"path":139,"region":134,"seo":140,"stem":141,"__hash__":142},"countries\u002Fcountries\u002Fen\u002Fcolombia.md","Pétanque in Colombia",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":124},"minimark",[9,13,22,27,92,96,117,121],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"pétanque-in-colombia",[14,15,16,17,21],"p",{},"Colombia is one of the newest national federations recognized by the ",[18,19,20],"strong",{},"Fédération Internationale de Pétanque et Jeu Provençal (FIPJP)",", joining in 2025 as part of the sport's continued growth across the Pan America Confederation. The federation is based in Cali and, like several of the confederation's other recent additions, has so far left a limited public footprint beyond its FIPJP registration.",[23,24,26],"h2",{"id":25},"colombia-petanque-federation","Colombia Petanque Federation",[14,28,29,30,32,33,36,37,40,41,44,45,50,51,55,56,55,60,64,65,69,70,55,73,77,78,55,82,86,87,91],{},"The federation is registered with the FIPJP as the ",[18,31,26],{}," (in French FIPJP records, the ",[18,34,35],{},"Fédération Colombienne de Pétanque","), which became a member of the FIPJP in 2025, per FIPJP's own nation record. It is headquartered at ",[18,38,39],{},"Cl. 9 # 37a-1, Eucarístico, Cali, Colombia",", and is led by president ",[18,42,43],{},"Gustavo Alonso Henao Chica",". Colombia is one of the 14 member federations of the ",[46,47,49],"a",{"href":48},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fdominican-republic","Pan America Petanque Confederation (PAPC)",", alongside ",[46,52,54],{"href":53},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fargentina","Argentina",", ",[46,57,59],{"href":58},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fbolivia","Bolivia",[46,61,63],{"href":62},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fbrazil","Brazil",", Canada, ",[46,66,68],{"href":67},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fchile","Chile",", the ",[46,71,72],{"href":48},"Dominican Republic",[46,74,76],{"href":75},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fhaiti","Haiti",", Mexico, ",[46,79,81],{"href":80},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fparaguay","Paraguay",[46,83,85],{"href":84},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fperu","Peru",", the United States, Uruguay, and ",[46,88,90],{"href":89},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fvenezuela","Venezuela",".",[23,93,95],{"id":94},"federation-contact","Federation Contact",[14,97,98,99,105,106,112,113,116],{},"General enquiries for the federation can be sent to ",[18,100,101],{},[46,102,104],{"href":103},"mailto:colombie@fipjp.com","colombie@fipjp.com",", FIPJP's own liaison address for correspondence with Colombia's federation (the address uses the French spelling of the country, consistent with FIPJP's internal record-keeping for several of its newer Pan American members), or directly to president Gustavo Alonso Henao Chica at ",[18,107,108],{},[46,109,111],{"href":110},"mailto:corporacionsamadhi@hotmail.com","corporacionsamadhi@hotmail.com",". A phone number, ",[18,114,115],{},"+57 313 704 2516",", is also listed at the federation's Cali headquarters. No independent federation website was found.",[23,118,120],{"id":119},"what-we-could-not-verify","What We Could Not Verify",[14,122,123],{},"Beyond the FIPJP nation record, no clubs, registered players, domestic competitions, or ongoing 2026 activity could be independently confirmed. petanque-world.com lists Colombian city pages, such as one for Arauquita, but they show no registered clubs or players, and Colombia did not appear among the ten nations that competed at the Pan America Confederation's most recent men's triples World Championship qualifier (the Panamericano Clasificatorio de Petancas Iquique 2025, in Chile). Whether the federation has since built out a club network in Cali or elsewhere, and whether president Gustavo Alonso Henao Chica remains in post, could not be confirmed from available sources as of this writing.",{"title":125,"searchDepth":126,"depth":126,"links":127},"",2,[128,129,130],{"id":25,"depth":126,"text":26},{"id":94,"depth":126,"text":95},{"id":119,"depth":126,"text":120},"CO","Colombia's petanque federation joined the FIPJP in 2025 under president Gustavo Alonso Henao Chica. Discover the Colombia Petanque Federation and its Pan America Confederation debut.","md",null,"🇨🇴","2026-09-17",{},true,"\u002Fcountries\u002Fen\u002Fcolombia",{"title":5,"description":132},"countries\u002Fen\u002Fcolombia","6hvIrN-iSEPb4kvcpluEwE1A0lGag4jX-tnJJz12YJ4",1790080172464]