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unusual facts about Junín, Cundinamarca


Gregorio Garavito Jiménez

Jiménez was born in Junín, Colombia and was ordained a priest on July 24, 1942 from the religious order of Missionaries of the Company of Mary.


Andrés Eduardo Pérez

Andrés Eduardo Pérez (born on 9 September 1980, in Bogotá, Cundinamarca) is a Colombian football midfielder, who currently plays for Deportivo Cali in the Liga Postobón.

Antonio Paredes Candia

He spent his entire childhood in a house located on the intersection of Sucre and Junín, in a typical neighborhood in the north of La Paz.

Argentine hemorrhagic fever

The disease was first detected in the 1950s in the Junín Partido in Buenos Aires, after which its agent, the Junín virus, was named upon its identification in 1958.

Barefoot Foundation

That same year, 'Pies Descalzos' initiated work in Soacha, Cundinamarca, a suburb on the outskirts of Bogotá.

Bogotazo

Fires destroyed the Cundinamarca Government building, the historic San Carlos Palace (containing the oldest portrait of Simón Bolívar, painted by Gill in London, 1810), the Justice Palace, Feminine University, Dominican Convent, St. Inés Convent, Regina Hotel, Veracruz church, La Salle high school, the Vatican Nunciature, and many other important landmarks of the city.

Changua

Changua (milk soup with eggs) is a typical hearty breakfast soup of the central Andes region of Colombia, in particular in the Boyacá and Cundinamarca area, including the capital, Bogotá.

Cuchuco

Cuchuco is a soup made with corn, barley or wheat and mashed beans to make Colombian cuisine soup, especially altiplano of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments of Colombia.

Cundinamarca

Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca (1810–1815 Estado Libre e Independiente de Cundinamarca)

Daniel Cangialosi

Daniel Cangialosi (born July 05, 1971 in Junín, Argentina) is a former Argentine footballer currently played for clubs of Argentina and Chile.

Ferrocarril Central Andino

It crosses into Junín state via the Galera Tunnel, the second highest railroad tunnel in the world.

Germán Vargas Lleras

Germán Vargas Lleras began his political career while in college at 19 years of age in a successful campaign that got him elected as councilman of Boyacá, Cundinamarca in 1981 under the flags of the New Liberalism, a dissident political movement founded by the then young Senator Luis Carlos Galán.

Gimnasio Los Caobos

Gimnasio Los Caobos is consistently ranked among the top preparatory schools in the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Region and in Colombia .

In 2011 on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary, Gimnasio Los Caobos was awarded the "Order of Policarpa Salavarrieta - Great Cross" by the Assembly of Cundinamarca.

Giovanni Buscaglione

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

Harold Bedoya Pizarro

In 1991 Bedoya was given the position of Director of the Superior Military School in Bogotá, Cundinamarca.

Iván Leonidas Name Vásquez

A Green party politician he reached the Senate in 2010 after serving as Member of the Chamber of Representatives, Councillor for Bogotá, and Deputy to the Cundinamarca Departmental Assembly.

Jack Greenwell

In 1942 he joined Independiente Santa Fe, with whom reached the finals of the Torneo de Cundinamarca (at the time there was no First Division in Colombia), which lost against América de Cali.

Javier Capelli

Javier Capelli (born in Junín, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Palestino of the Chilean Primera División as defender.

Juan Matías Fischer

Juan Matías Fischer (born February 12, 1985 in Junín, Buenos Aires Province), Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Talleres de Remedios de Escalada of the Primera C of Argentina.

Junin Grebe

The Junín Grebe, Junin Flightless Grebe or Puna Grebe (Podiceps taczanowskii) is a grebe found only on Lake Junin in the highlands of Junin, west-central Peru.

Luciano Araya

Luciano Araya (born August 5, 1993 in Junín, Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Unión San Felipe of the Primera División B in Chile.

Luis Carlos Galán

After receiving several death threats, on 18 August 1989 Galán was shot to death by hitmen hired by the drug cartels during a public demonstration in the town of Soacha, Cundinamarca.

Mariano Necochea

He accompanied the latter to Peru, was promoted brigadier for his valor in the siege of Callao, and afterward as commander of cavalry engaged in the campaign of Peru, assisting in the battle of Junin, 6 August 1824, where he was dangerously wounded and saved from death by a Spanish soldier who formerly had served under him in the Army of the Andes.

Muisca raft

The raft was found by three farmers in early 1969 in a cave in the village of Lázaro Fonte in the municipality of Pasca (Cundinamarca), Colombia in a ceramic pot, adorned with a human figure whose face has sharp teeth.

Niceforo's Pintail

The former range of included subtropical and temperate zones of north-central Colombia, 1000-3000 m above sea level in the upper Cauca Valley, the central part of the Cordillera Oriental, the Bogota Savannah and Cundinamarca.

Nidia Vílchez

Nidia Ruth Vílchez Yucra (born 12 May 1964) is a Peruvian politician and a former Member of Congress representing Junín for the 2006-2011 term.

Schreder Airmate HP-11

Schreder also flew it to third place in the Open Class at the 1963 World Gliding Championships held at Junín, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Sebastián Ágreda

A native of Potosí, Ágreda had fought in the battles of Junin and Ayacucho under Antonio José de Sucre, for which the Grand Marshall rewarded him as Commander of the Military College in Chuquisaca.

Siren Edelweiss

The two Edelweiss prototypes competed in the 1963 WGC, held at Junin, Argentina and were placed 2nd and 17th in the Standard Class, piloted respectively by J. Lachney and C. Labar.

Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia

After the Colombian first declaration of independence from Spain on July 20, 1810, a number of independent States like Tunja (1811), Antioquia (1812), Cartagena de Indias (1812) and Cundinamarca (1812) were established.

Tarma

Its location consolidates as the point of nexus between the central coast (departments of Lima and Ica), the Andean provinces of the department of Junín and the Central Forest (provinces of Chanchamayo and Satipo).

Vílchez

Nidia Vílchez, Peruvian politician and Congresswoman representing Junín for the 2006–2011 term

Yanesha people

Presently, the most recent census count puts their population at over 7,000 distributed among 48 communities located in Puerto Inca Province (Huánuco), Chanchamayo Province (Junín) and Oxapampa Province (Pasco).

Yaru Quechua

Yaru Quechua is a dialect cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Peruvian province of Pasco and neighboring areas in northern Junín and Lima department.


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