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16 unusual facts about Colombia


1950–51 Stoke City F.C. season

Stoke were rocked before the start of the season by the news that Neil Franklin and George Mountford had agreed to play for Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia.

Amigos de las Américas

AMIGOS has expanded to many different countries including Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru, though some countries do not currently have active projects.

Blue-gray Tanager

Two other birds, examined near Turbo (also in Colombia), did not have blood parasites.

Congolese music

In Panama and Colombia, there is an Afro-Caribbean genre of music called Congo music.

Fernando Uribe

Fernando Uribe Hincapié (born 1 January 1988 in Pereira) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a striker for Atlético Nacional.

Galeras tragedy

They were attending a conference in Pasto organized by the United Nations to gather geologists to study Galeras in order to assess its potential threat to nearby civilization.

Josimar Quiñonez

Josimar Quiñonez (born March 26, 1987 in Magui, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer currently playing for Palestino of the Primera Division in Chile.

Lotus seed

Lotus seeds are also very common in the northern part of Colombia, especially in cities like Barranquilla and Cartagena.

Ognjen Stojanović

In 2011, Ognjen won Pan American continental cup in Cartagena, Colombia, which is so far biggest success in Serbian triathlon history.

Postage stamps and postal history of Colombia

In 1886 the newly created Republic of Colombia abolished the states and divided the country into the departments of Colombia.

Rubén Darío Hernández

Ruben Darío Hernández Ariza (born February 19, 1965 in Armenia) is a former Colombian football (soccer) striker, one of the leading scorers in his country's history, and one of the early busts of Major League Soccer.

Rumichaca Bridge

The Rumichaca Bridge (Quechua: Rock Bridge) is the principal passage between Colombia and Ecuador.

Sabas Pretelt de la Vega

In the academic field, Pretelt was professor of Greek culture and pre-Socratic philosophy in the La Salle University, and of Projects Evaluation in the University of Valle.

William Foye

He served as lieutenant in the expedition against Cartagena.

Without Breasts There Is No Paradise

Bolívar says the story is based on real-life conditions facing child prostitutes in the town of Pereira.

Yamid Haad

Yamid Salcedo Haad (born September 2, 1977 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a former Major League Baseball catcher.


1868 Ecuador earthquakes

The earthquake of 15 August occurred near El Angel, Carchi Province, close to the border with Colombia, while that of August 16 occurred near Ibarra in Imbabura Province.

Adriana Kugler

Plant Turnover and Structural Reforms in Colombia (with Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, and Maurice Kugler), IMF Staff Papers, 2006, 53.

Altevir de Araújo

Altevir Silva Filho de Araújo (born December 23, 1955) is a retired sprinter from Brazil, he was a Brazilian champion, but he was best known for winning two gold medals (100 and 200 metres) at the 1979 South American Championships in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Aluna

After offering the warning the Kogi retreat back to civilisation hidden in a mountain in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

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.

Charles Córdoba

Charles Córdoba Sánchez (born 15 September 1982 in Carepa, Antioquia, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer who plays as forward for Atlético Choloma in the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Colombian Tinamou

The Colombian Tinamou, Crypturellus erythropus columbianus, is a tinamou found in Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, and Antioquia in north-central Colombia.

Corallus

South America in Colombia east of the Andes, north of the Cordillera Central and north of the Cordillera Oriental, northern Venezuela north of the Cordillera de Mérida and in the drainage of the Río Orinoco, north and west of the Guiana Shield, east of the Orinoco Delta.

Corporación Andina de Fomento

The creation of CAF began to take place in 1966 following the historic signing of the Declaration of Bogotá in the presence of its framers, President Carlos Lleras Restrepo of Colombia, President Eduardo Frei Montalva of Chile, President Raúl Leoni of Venezuela, and the personal representatives of the presidents of Ecuador and Peru.

Custodio García Rovira

García was the son of Juan de Dios García Navas and Rosa Rovira de García, he was born on March 2, 1780, in Bucaramanga, in the province of Socorro, part of the Viceroyalty of the New Granada, in what is now Colombia.

Daniel Tílger

In 1991 he moved to Colombia, where he spent the next eight years playing for several first division clubs including Deportes Quindío, Independiente Santa Fe, Deportivo Cali, Millonarios and América de Cali among others.

Donald L. Jackson

Jackson was a congressional adviser at the ninth conference of American States at Bogotá, Colombia in 1948 and was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1961).

Edwin Cassiani

Edwin Cassiani Tejedor (born October 28, 1972 in San Basilio de Palenque, Mahates) is a retired male boxer from Colombia, who competed in the light-welterweight division (– 63.5 kg) during his career.

Elsy del Pilar Cuello

Elsy del Pilar Cuello Calderón (born in Bogotá, 13 June 1959) is a Supreme Court Judge from the Corte Suprema de Justicia of Colombia.

Fabio Baldas

He is mostly known for supervising one match in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA, the first-round Group A contest between the United States and Colombia.

Fabio Ochoa

Fabio Ochoa Restrepo (1923-2002), father, Colombian rancher and patriarch of a notorious crime family associated with the Medellín Cartel

Felipe Peralta

He played professional football in Paraguay, and also had a spell in Colombia, playing for Deportivo Pereira.

Geoff Garin

He replaced Mark Penn as the Clinton Campaign's chief strategist in April 2008, after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Penn met with Colombian official regarding a proposed free trade agreement opposed by Clinton and most labor unions.

George Pastor

Pastor’s last game with the national team was as a substitute for Paul Caligiuri on June 24, 1989, a 1-0 loss to Colombia.

Germán Castro Caycedo

On the one hand the story of a gypsy witch, and on the other the life of a poor-well-known Colombian drug lord, Castro Caycedo uses their stories as a base to conduct the reader on a trip showing how the cocaine traffic affected the society and economy of a small town (Fredonia), the Mexican Secret Police's brutality and corruption, and the United States' active role in the birth and expansion of drug production in Colombia.

Gilded Barbet

The Gilded Barbet ranges in the eastern Andes drainages to the rivers of the western Amazon Basin from eastern Colombia-Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, from north to south-eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia; in Bolivia the Barbet only ranges on the headwater tributaries to the north-easterly flowing Madeira River.

Graciela Naranjo

At this time, she received contract offers from Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico, but chose to stick around Caracas and raised a family instead of pursuing an international artistic career.

Jesse Ruíz

At the peak of his sporting career in Mexico, he became a three-time national champion, and won a silver medal at the 2010 Pan American Wrestling Championships in Rionegro, Colombia.

Jesus Maria Espinosa

He was educated in the city of Popayán, Colombia and then began his formal study of painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, in the capital Bogotá.

Jesús Salvador Pérez

Jesús Salvador Pérez Llerena (born December 25, 1971 in Córdoba, Bolívar) is a retired male boxer from Colombia, who competed in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) during his career.

John Arlington González

John Arlinton González (born February 2, 1989 in Caloto, Cauca) is a Colombian football midfielder, who played for Millonarios in the Copa Mustang.

Jorge Barón

Jorge Barón (born Jorge Eliécer Varón 29 June 1948 in Ibagué) is a Colombian television presenter, and media personality and businessman.

José Bardina

He was popular not only in Venezuela, but also in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Spain, after the telenovelas produced by Radio Caracas Televisión and Venevisión reached its peak during the 1970s decade.

Joža Karas

Born to Christian parents in Warsaw, Karas emigrated to the United States in 1948 via Colombia and Canada.

Julio Jaramillo

Jaramillo recorded with many other noteworthy Latin American artists including Puerto Rican singer, Daniel Santos; fellow Ecuadorian singer, Olimpo Cárdenas; and Colombian singer, Alci Acosta.

Luigi Di Franco

Di Franco moved to Colombia to become player-manager of Deportivo Pereira during the 1949 and 1950 seasons.

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.

Manuel Castañeda

Manuel Castañeda (born 27 October 1980 in Bogotá) is a Colombian cinematographer.

N. S. Madhavan

In this work, Madhavan models his protagonist, priest Father Geevarghese, on René Higuita, the 1990 FIFA World Cup goalkeeper for Colombia.

Pacific Rubiales Energy

Its focus is on Colombia and Peru where it holds numerous properties including 38 blocks in the Llanos, Sucre-Co Lower Magdalena and Cesar Valley, Rancheria, Upper and Middle Magdalena Valley, Putumayo Valley, Ucayali and Maranon basins.

Patricia McMahon Hawkins

She subsequently served as Information Officer in Kinshasa, Zaire, as Public Affairs Officer in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as Cultural Affairs Officer in Bogotá, Colombia, as Counselor for Public Affairs in Abidjan, Cộte d'Ivoire, where she also served briefly as Acting DCM and then for several months as Chargé d'affaires.

Pelliciera

Pelliciera rhizophorae, known as the tea mangrove, is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.

Pierre Pinoncelli

He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Red-eyed Vireo

and trypanosomans might affect these birds not infrequently, as was noted in studies of birds caught in Parque Nacional de La Macarena and near Turbo (Colombia): though only three Red-eyed Vireos were examined, all were infected with at least one of these parasites.

Rio Branco Football Club

The club was eliminated in the first round of Copa CONMEBOL, by Deportes Tolima, of Colombia, after losing in the penalty shootout.

Rodrigo Arango Velásquez

Born in Betania, Colombia, he was ordain to the priesthood on June 3, 1950.

Rodrigo Sevillano

Rodrigo Ariel Sevillano Cabezas known as Rodrigo Sevillano and as Ariel Sevillano (born April 17, 1985 in Barbacoas (Nariño), Colombia) is a Colombian footballer currently playing for General Díaz of the Primera División in Paraguay.

Ryu Seung-Woo

On 27 June 2013, Ryu was injured and substituted during South Korea's final game of the group stage against Nigeria, forcing him to miss out their Round of 16 match against Colombia, and subsequently, their Quarter-final loss against Iraq.

Santiago Montoya Muñoz

Santiago Montoya Muñoz (born 15 September 1991 in Medellín) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Brazilian club Vasco da Gama.

Simon Shaheen

In addition to his work in traditional and classical Arabic music, Shaheen has participated in many cross-cultural musical projects, including performing with producer Bill Laswell, Colombian singer Soraya, Henry Threadgill, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and with Jewish klezmer musicians The Klezmatics.

Sisco Gomez

His father, who originates from Seville, Spain, was a draughtsman at the Seville shipyard and moved to England around 1954; his mother is from Cali, Colombia, es Vallecaucano.

Sombrero Vueltiao

This iconic symbol of Colombia has been sported by hundreds of personalities, including Pope John Paul II when he visited Colombia in 1986, and former President of the United States Bill Clinton when he visited Cartagena, Colombia in August 2000.

Victor Bulmer-Thomas

While Director, he received honours from the governments of Brazil and Colombia as well as an OBE from the British government in recognition of his role in building up the reputation of the Institute.

William Naranjo

William de Jesús Naranjo Jaramillo (born August 18, 1978 in Riosucio, Caldas) is a male long-distance runner from Colombia, who twice represented his native country at the Pan American Games (2003 and 2007).