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6 unusual facts about Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca


Delio Gamboa

Delio "Maravilla" Gamboa Rentería, is a former Colombian football player, born January 28, 1936 in Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca), Colombia.

Luis Fernando Mosquera

Luis Fernando Mosquera Alomia (born on August 17, 1986 in Buenaventura) is a Colombian footballer who plays attacking midfielder for Deportivo Cali.

Marbelle

Maureen Belky Ramírez Cardona, better known by her stage name Marbelle (born in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia on 19 January 1980) is a Colombian singer singing pop and romantic ballads.

Marino Klinger

Born in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Klinger played club football for amateur side Oro del Puerto and local Buenaventura and Valle del Cauca department selections.

Roller Cambindo

Roller Cambindo (born October 29, 1978 in Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca), Colombia) is a Colombian footballer currently playing for Los Caimanes of the Peruvian Segunda División.

Transport in Colombia

This upgrade involved two main projects: the 1,484-kilometer line linking Bogotá to the Caribbean Coast and the 499-kilometer Pacific coastal network that links the industrial city of Cali and the surrounding coffee-growing region to the port of Buenaventura.


Adolfo Valencia

Adolfo José Valencia Mosquera (born 6 February 1968 in Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca) is a Colombian retired footballer who played as a striker.

Basilaki Island

First recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Luís Vaez de Torres on 18 July 1606, that charted it as San Buenaventura (Saint Bonaventure in Spanish).

Buenaventura Ferreira

Buenaventura Ferreira Gómez (born 4 July 1960 in Coronel Oviedo) is a Paraguayan former football striker or midfielder.

Carli de Murga

Murga started his acting career by starring in the music video for "Sometimes It Happens", a song entry for the second Philippine Popular Music Festival written by Adrienne Buenaventura & Niño Regalado and interpreted by Ace Libre of Never the Strangers.

Celyn Buenaventura

Celyn Buenaventura/Marasigan lives in a simple but poor family and caring with her adoptive mother, Theresa Apolinario (Cherry Pie Picache).

Champús

Champús is a drink popular in Peru, Ecuador and southwest Colombia (Departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño), made with maize, fruits such as lulo (also known as naranjilla), pineapple, quince or guanábana, sweetened with panela and seasoned with cinnamon, cloves and orange tree leaves.

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Héctor Ballesteros

Héctor Fabio Ballesteros Vélez (born October 18, 1981 in Cali, Valle del Cauca) is a retired male weightlifter from Colombia.

Humanitarian exchange

The FARC guerrillas originally demanded that in order to proceed with the humanitarian exchange, the government must demilitarize a zone, which are the municipalities of Pradera and Florida in the southern Department of Valle del Cauca.

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

Obtaining work in 1885 as a tutor in Jerez de la Frontera to Buenaventura Misa y Busheroy, the son of the I Count of Bayona, later the Marquis of Misa.

Jonatan Romero

Romero who is known by his nickname 'Momo' hails from a boxing family from the "El Retiro" neighbourhood of Santiago de Cali in the Valle del Cauca region.

Juan Bautista Topete

He sent the steamer "Buenaventura" to the Canary Islands for Serrano and the other exiles; and when Prim and Sagasta arrived from Gibraltar, the whole fleet under the influence of Topete took such an attitude that the people, garrison and authorities of Cádiz followed suit.

Madelaynne Montaño

Madelaynne Montaño Caicedo (born January 6, 1983 in Tuluá, Valle del Cauca) is a female volleyball player from Colombia, who win the silver medal at the 2012 FIVB Club World Championship playing with Rabita Baku.

Mario Llanos

Mario Llanos Méndez (born April 05, 1989 in Roldanillo (Valle del Cauca), Colombia) is an Colombian footballer currently playing for Békéscsaba 1912 Előre SE of the Nemzeti Bajnokság II.

Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame

Thanks to an organization created years earlier by the indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame (1880–1967), the group had the support of many indigenous communities in the region of the Valle del Cauca, Huila, Tolima, and parts of the departments of Meta and Caquetá Department.

Philippine House of Representatives elections in Eastern Visayas, 2010

Actor Richard Gomez was disqualified when the Commission on Elections granted the petition of disqualification filed by Buenaventura Juntilla against Gomez.

Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura

In 1874, the Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura not yet owned by settlers, was sold to Rudolph Steinbach & Horace W. Carpentier.

Royal Audiencia of Guatemala

The borders of the new Panama Audiencia were in east, the coast from the Darién River to the Ulúa River; and in the west, the coast from Buenaventura to the Gulf of Fonseca.

San Buenaventura, La Paz

San Buenaventura is a little town in northern Bolivia, on the west bank of Beni River, opposite the town Rurrenabaque on the east bank.

Sigifredo López

Sigifredo López Tobón (born 29 October 1963 in Pradera, Valle del Cauca, Colombia) is a lawyer and politician.

The Marines Are Coming

Armida as Rosita Hernández Consuelo Ibera y Buenaventura

The Zeta Project

Bucky Buenaventura (Ulises Cuadra-Season 1, Blaine Barbosa-Season 2), a child genius who occasionally aids Zeta and Ro.

Tulia Medina

Tulia Angela Medina Alcalde (born March 18, 1983 in Cali, Valle del Cauca) is a female weightlifter from Colombia.

United Provinces of New Granada

The Royal Audiencia of Quito, whose president had executive powers, had jurisdiction over the provinces of Quito, Cuenca, Loja, Ibarra, Riobamba, Pasto, Popayán, Buenaventura and parts of the Cauca River Valley.


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