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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Medellin
		The territory of the Diocese is comprised in the Andes region; means of communication are poor, owing to the mountainous nature of the country; a railway, however, is being built from Puerto Berrio to Medellín.
		Antioquia), Oriente (cap., Maranilla), Sopetran (cap., Sopetran), Sur (cap., Manizales), Uraba (cap., Frontino).
		ANTIOQUIA on the Cauca was founded by Jorge Robledo in 1542; until 1826 it was the capital of the Department of Antioquia.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10116b.htm

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Medellin
		The territory of the Diocese is comprised in the Andes region; means of communication are poor, owing to the mountainous nature of the country; a railway, however, is being built from Puerto Berrio to Medellín.
		Archdiocese in the Republic of Colombia, Metropolitan of Antioquia and Manizales, in the Departments of Medellín, Antioquia, and Manizales.
		As the civil districts are now constituted, the Department of Antioquia embraces an area of 11,517 square miles with a population of 160,000; that of Medellín an area of 12,137 with a population of 275,000; that of Manizales an area of 4439 with a population of 242,000 (The Statesman's Year-Book, 1910).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10116b.htm

	MBG: Research: Antioquia Catalog
		Most of the Department of Antioquia is mountainous, because both the Central and Western Cordilleras of the Andes cross this department.
		Alvaro Idárraga of the Herbarium of the University of Antioquia (HUA) and Rosa Ortíz (MO) are currently preparing an annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of the Department of Antioquia, which is a joint project of the HUA and MO herbaria coordinated by Ricardo Callejas (HUA) and Olga Martha Montiel (MO).
		The Department of Antioquia is located in the northwestern part of Colombia, between 5°25' and 8°55' north latitude and 73°53' and 77°07' west longitude (Galeano & Bernal, 1987).
	www.mobot.org /mobot/Research/colombia/colombia_english.shtml

	Mineral Properties
		In general, the Andes Mountains of Antioquia consist of highly decomposed granite and marble interwoven by a network of quartz veins and stringers of auriferous pyrites.
		For years during the '70's and '80's Mineros de Antioquia was South America's largest gold producer operating six Yuba bucket ladder dredges and presently accounts for over half of Colombia's annual gold production of 750,000 troy ounces.
		The region of the Mineral Rights is one of the richest gold producing areas in Colombia and it is the richest of the State of Antioquia.
	www.wmcus.com /mnrlprop.html

	Anthurium tenerum Engl
		Antioquia: Cerro El Plateado in western Andes, dense humid forest, 1,800-2,200 m, Lehmann 7354 (B, K).
		Colombia Antioquia: Las Orquideas, 1700-1750 m, 06.32N 76.19W, 02 December 1993, J. Pipoly et al.
		Anthurium tenerum can be distinguished by its lack of leaf punctations and by its long slender peduncle which is, at least initially, borne in the conspicuous petiole sheath.
	www.aroid.org /genera/Anthurium/xialophyllium/tenerum.htm (301 words)

	Amphibian Species of the World - Colostethus ramosi Silverstone, 1971
		Known only from the region of the type locality on the western slope of the Central Andes, Antioquia, Colombia, ca.
		Type locality: "Colombia: Antioquia: Alto de la Honda (hill near San Rafael), 1240 m".
	research.amnh.org /herpetology/amphibia/references.php?id=3037 (301 words)

	COLOMBIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2000
		The Antioquia Rehabilitation Committeee is in Medellín in Antioquia department.
		The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Los Andes in Bogotá is interested in carrying out research to develop a robot for the detection of landmines.
		In several parts of the country, including Chocó, Santander and Antioquia Departments, farmers make “pig mines,” for various reasons, including protection of crops from animals and theft.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2000/colombia.html (301 words)

	AVIFAUNA - Picchio Verde. . . l'altro web site
		Locally in Andes, 700-2200 m, of Colombia, w slope of W. Andes from Antioquia to Cauca and e slope of E. Andes in se Nariño, nw,e Ecuador and n,e Peru.
		Gubernatrix and Paroaria often are placed in the Cardinalini, e.g., Ridgely and Tudor (1989).
	digilander.libero.it /avifauna/classificazione/passeriformes27.htm (301 words)

	Proyecto Ognorhynchus
		Ognorhynchus icterotis is threatened with global extinction owing to severe habitat loss and hunting across its limited distribution in the high Andes of Colombia and Ecuador.
		threatened by habitat loss; principally the wax palm population is sharply decreasing in Tolima (natural dieback) and in Antioquia (illegal logging for Palm Sunday).
		Ognorhynchus esta amenazado inminentemente por la pérdida del hábitat; principalmente por la grande disminución de la población de palma de cera en Tolima (mortalidad natural) y en Antioquia (por la tala ilegal el durante domingo de la palma).
	www.ognorhynchus.com /report4.htm (3749 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Medellin
		The territory of the Diocese is comprised in the Andes region; means of communication are poor, owing to the mountainous nature of the country; a railway, however, is being built from Puerto Berrio to Medellín.
		Antioquia), Oriente (cap., Maranilla), Sopetran (cap., Sopetran), Sur (cap., Manizales), Uraba (cap., Frontino).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10116b.htm (888 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Medellin
		In 1720 a Jesuit college was established at Antioquia under the auspices of Bishop Gomez Friar, of Popayan, and on 5 Feb., 1727, a royal charter was granted to the college, and the fathers were given charge of the church of St. Barbara.
		PETRE, The Republic of Colombia (London, 1906); CASSANI, Historia de la Compañía de Jesus; BORDA, Compendio de Historia de Colombia (Bogotá, 1890); HOLTON, Twenty Months in the Andes (New York); NUÑEZ, La République de Colombie (Brussels, 1883); Annuaire Pontifical (1910).
		Gregory Hoyos, born at Vahos, 1 Dec; 1849; appointed 11 May, 1901.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10116b.htm (888 words)

	Colombia Country Guide - Overview - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
		Nationals are strongly advised not to travel to the provinces of Caqueta, Putumayo, Meta and Choco or to the rural areas of Antioquia, Cauca, Narino, Norte de Santander, Arauca, Sucre and Bolivar.
		The Andes Mountains extend into the country in three ranges running south to north.
		Colombia is situated in South America, bordered by Panama, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, the Caribbean and Pacific oceans.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /data/col/col.asp (888 words)

	Ethnologue report for Colombia
		Near city of Andes, Christiania, Municipio de Jardín, Antioquía region.
		Miraña are on the lower Caquetá River, near the mouth of the Cabinari River, Amazonas.
		Amazonas Department, halfway between the San Bernardo and Pure rivers.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Colombia (1522 words)

	Ethnologue: Colombia
		Atrato River basin in Chocó Department, Pacific coastal rivers from Cabo Corrientes (5'30"N), to Antioquia (Rio Verde) Department.
		Isolated, on the edge of the eastern plains in the Andes foothills above Paz de Ariporo, in Barro Negro, San Lope (Casanare), and Tabías (Casanare), south of Tame Arauca.
		(COBARÍA TUNEBO) [TUF] 1,500 in Colombia (1982 SIL).
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Colo.html (1522 words)

	Political Violence and Counterinsurgency in Colombia
		Statistics gathered by the Defensoría show that the department of Meta is second only to the department of Antioquia in terms of the murder of UP members.
		51 These rolling hills, where most of the department's population of 500,000 is concentrated, mark the end of the Andes and beginning of the llanos, a grassy savannah that stretches into Venezuela.
		When he finally made it to La Uribe to inquire at the Mobile Brigade I base, he was told that his family had been flown to Granada "for security reasons." 66 When he finally travelled to Bogotá, he was prevented from visiting his wife and daughter except in the company of a soldier.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1993/colombia/stateofwar2.htm (18859 words)

	BiRDZiLLA: Cerulean Warbler
		Winter range: The winter home of the cerulean warbler is northwestern South America, in the valleys of the Andes from central Colombia (Antioquia, Medellin, and BogotA) through Ecuador (Rio Napo, Sara-yacu, and the Pataza Valley); to southern Peri (Huachipa and Lima).
		The cerulean's song can be expressed by the phrase 'Just a little sneeze.'" A. DuBois tells me that "the beginning of the song is similar to that of the redstart, but it ends with a fine, 'wiry,' grasshopper-like trill, ascending in pitch and drawn out to nothing at the end." Mr.
		The cerulean warbler is a rare migrant in the States along the Atlantic coast., though It has been noted In the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
	www.birdzilla.com /omnibus.asp?strType=Bent&strTitle=Cerulean+Warbler&strURL=cerulean_warbler.htm (18859 words)

	worldsurface.com - sustainable tourism for backpackers and independent travellers
		The Cauca River, which contributes a substantial part of its total flow, rises in the mountains south of Popayán and, after passing through the floor of the Cauca valley near Cali, occupies deep canyons in most of its passage through the departments of Caldas and Antioquia before emerging onto the floodplain of the lower Magdalena.
		From the Guaviare River northward the plains between the Andes and the Orinoco River are mostly grass-covered, forming the largest savanna complex in tropical America.
		In the central part of the plain, between the Guaviare and Caquetá rivers, the eroded rocks of the ancient Guiana Shield are exposed, producing a broken topography of low, isolated mountains, tablelands, and buttes with rapids in the streams.
	www.worldsurface.com /browse/static.asp?staticpageid=566 (18859 words)

	Gaultheria anastomosans description
		Cundinamarca: Andes of Bogotá, 2743-3048 m, Hartweg 1205 (holotype, K; isotypes, BR, CGE, E, FI-Webb., G, K, LD, NY, OXF, P, W).
		Colombia: mortiño (Antioquia); totiadera blanca (Boyacá); reventadera (Boyacá, Cundinamarca); borrachera, chirridera, maiz de perro, totiadera, veneno (Cundinamarca); uvito (Huila).
	www.nybg.org /bsci/res/lut2/gaultheria_anastomosans.html (18859 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bogota
		The city of Bogotá, capital of the republic of Colombia, is situated on a plateau 8700 feet above sea level, at the western base of the Guadalupe and Monserrat mountains, in the eastern cordillera of the Andes.
		The actual suffragan sees of Bogotá are: Antioquia (Antioquiensis), which was erected a bishopric by Pius VII, 31 August, 1804, re-erected by Pope Leo XII, 19 January, 1829, suppressed in 1868, and re-established by Pius IX, 29 January, 1873.
		Bogotá was settled by the Spaniards in 1538 and became, in 1598, the capital of Nueva Grenada, which was then a viceregal province, and in 1819, when Colombia became independent of Spain, Bogotá was made the capital of the new republic.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02612a.htm (18859 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bogota
		The city of Bogotá, capital of the republic of Colombia, is situated on a plateau 8700 feet above sea level, at the western base of the Guadalupe and Monserrat mountains, in the eastern cordillera of the Andes.
		The actual suffragan sees of Bogotá are: Antioquia (Antioquiensis), which was erected a bishopric by Pius VII, 31 August, 1804, re-erected by Pope Leo XII, 19 January, 1829, suppressed in 1868, and re-established by Pius IX, 29 January, 1873.
		Bogotá was settled by the Spaniards in 1538 and became, in 1598, the capital of Nueva Grenada, which was then a viceregal province, and in 1819, when Colombia became independent of Spain, Bogotá was made the capital of the new republic.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02612a.htm (521 words)

	R. N. Río Claro
		The area is very rich in animals and plants and belongs to the western low slope of the central cordillera of the Andes.
		It is located in the department of Antioquia, Municipio of San Luis.
		Ecological Park Cañón del Río Claro, El Refugio.
	www.uky.edu /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/mjshar0/rioclaro.cgi (67 words)

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