There is No Official National Poet Of Colombia. Rafael Pombo, José Asunción Silva Are Considered The National Poet of Colombia.
José Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet. He is considered one of the founders of Spanish–American Modernism.
José Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo was a Colombian poet born in Bogotá. Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military school, Rafael Pombo served in the army and he traveled to the United States of America as Secretary of the Legation in Washington.