The Minister of the Interior Colombian, German Vargas Lleras, made the announcement at a press conference in Bogota.
Among the dead were victims of abduction buried in anonymous graves of massive.
Members of the family will soon lay their parents to rest and will have the right to claim compensation from the Government.
A total of 438 families were told immediately that their parents have been found. The rest will be informed in the days and weeks to come.
They will be entitled to claim up to $10,000 (£ 6 000) in compensation from the Government.
The identified remains are from the last two decades of internal conflict of 50 years of Colombia.
For more than 40 years, the Colombia saw fighting and violence by the guerrillas, the paramilitaries and the drug traffickers and security forces.
A spokesman for the Colombian Interior Ministry told the BBC that forensic scientists had used advanced finger-printing technology to find missing persons.
Experts are still trying to identify another remains 10 000, but their advanced state of decomposition makes a slow task.
New law victimAnalysts said the Government of President Juan Manuel Santos tent currently to heal the wounds old bitter conflict in the country.
On Tuesday, the Senate approved legislation to compensate the victims of the civil conflict of long duration in the country and return the land to millions of displaced persons.
One of the objectives is to return the land up to four million people forced from their homes by rebels, the paramilitaries and the traffickers.
For more than 40 years, the Colombia saw fighting and violence by the guerrillas, the paramilitaries and the drug traffickers and security forces.
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