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unusual facts about El Queremal, Valle del Cauca



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.

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.

Delio Gamboa

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

El Queremal, Valle del Cauca

The name "El Queremal" comes from the local plant Cavendishia quereme.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sigifredo López

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

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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