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24 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.

A Man of Principle

The Conservative Party, no longer willing to tolerate the atrocities of Leon Maria Lozano, sends him to Pereira for protection and promises him a pension.

Abierto Internacional de Golf del Eje Cafetero

The Abierto Internacional de Golf del Eje Cafetero is an annual golf tournament held in Pereira, Colombia.

Blue-gray Tanager

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

Clemencia

Clemencia, Colombia, a town and municipality located in the Bolívar Department, northern Colombia.

Guillermo Valencia

Guillermo Valencia Castillo (October 29, 1873, Popayán, Colombia – July 8, 1943, Popayán) was a Colombian poet and translator.

Hernán Barreneche

Hernán Barreneche Ríos (born July 25, 1939 in Pereira, Risaralda) is a long-distance runner from Colombia, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics (1968 and 1972).

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.

Julio Londoño Londoño

His speech on October 23, 1956 entitled: The Influence of Geography in the History of Colombia is recognized as a crucial element in historical and geographical studies of the country.

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Julio Londoño (May 14, 1901 – June 13, 1980) was a Colombian historian and military man.

Lotus seed

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

Luis Carlos Perea

Luis Carlos "Coroncoro" Perea (born 29 December 1963 in Turbo) is a Colombian retired footballer who played as a central defender.

Marimonda

In zoology, marimonda is the vernacular name given to the white-fronted spider monkey in Colombia.

Martin de Villamil

Around 1812, he was one of the cofounders of the trade consulate in Cartagena.

Néstor Ortiz

Nestor Ortiz Mena (born September 20, 1968 in Turbo, Colombia) is a former Colombian football player who played defense.

Ognjen Stojanović

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

Rodrigo Arango Velásquez

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

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.

Sin Senos no Hay Paraíso

Catalina Santana (Carmen Villalobos), a young woman in Pereira, Colombia, is willing to risk everything in order to escape the poverty she lives in and fulfill her dreams - even if this means putting her life and her integrity in jeopardy.

Tomás Herrán

Tomás Herrán y Mosquera (September 21, 1843 – 1904), a Colombian diplomat, signed and became a namesake of the Hay–Herrán Treaty of 1903.

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.


Alexander Viveros

Alexander Viveros Sánchez (born 8 October 1977 in Cali) is a Colombian retired footballer who played as a left defender.

Andrés González

Andrés Felipe González Ramírez (born 8 January 1984 in Cali) is a Colombian footballer.

Beibis Mendoza

Beibis Antonio Mendoza (born 1974-06-20 in Arboletes, Antioquia) is a professional boxer from Colombia.

Carlos Jacanamijoy

Carlos Jacanamijoy (born in Santiago, Putumayo in 1964) is a Colombian painter of native South American origin of the Inga people.

Castaño

Carlos Castaño Gil, (1965-2004) the founder of the Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá (ACCU), an extreme right paramilitary organization in Colombia.

César Valoyes

César Augusto Valoyes Córdoba (born on January 5, 1984 in Bahía Solano) is a Colombian footballer who plays striker for Atlético Huila.

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.

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

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.

Felipe Peralta

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

Florencia

Florencia, Caquetá, a town and municipality in the Department of Caqueta, Colombia

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.

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.

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.

Joe Angel

A native of Bogotá, Colombia, Angel is famous for his proper pronunciation of Latin players' names.

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.

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.

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.

Lacerum

Trichocentrum lacerum, a species of orchid found from Central America to Colombia

Los Van Van

In January 2010 "A Cali," a song from Van Van's latest album was selected as one of the winning songs of the 2009 Cali Fair held in the Cali (Colombia), a city known as Colombia's "salsa capital".

Luciana Morales Mendoza

In May 2003 she won the first place in the Pan-American Championship for Girls Under 20 in Botucatu, Brazil and Under 16 in July 2003 in Bogotá, Colombia.

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.

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.

Martín Palermo

He is in the Guinness Book of World Records for missing three penalties for Argentina in a single international match against Colombia in the Copa América 1999.

Mercedes Soler

Soler has interviewed various high-profile figures during her two decade career including Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico, Carlos Menem of Argentina, Violeta Chamorro and Arnoldo Alemán of Nicaragua, Abdalá Bucaram and Gustavo Noboa of Ecuador, and Ernesto Samper of Colombia.

Mike Hanks

On temporary assignment from Samford, Hanks served as an assistant coach to then Texas coach, Bob Weltlich for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal in Cali, Colombia.

Orchid hunting

Tom Hart Dyke, a plant hunter who follows the tradition of the Victorian and Edwardian orchid hunters, was held in 2000 by kidnappers thought to be FARC guerillas in the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, while hunting for rare orchids, a plant for which he has a particular passion.

Osmani García

In early 2006 he joined the group Paulo FG and Elite and also performed in the Festival Internacional de Cali in Colombia, sharing the stage with Maelo Ruíz.

Osornophryne

Osornophryne (Plump Toads) is a genus of true toads endemic to Colombia and Ecuador at Cordillera Central region.

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.

Paul Arcelin

He has written for such well-known newspapers as El Nacional of Caracas, Venezuela, El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia) and the Observateur of Haiti.

Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá

Autodefensas Campesinas de Córdoba y Urabá (ACCU), Spanish for Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá, was a paramilitary group formed in northwestern Colombia, operating mainly in the Antioquia Department and Córdoba Department.

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.

Ralph Puckett

As the first Ranger Advisor in the U.S. Army Mission to Colombia, he planned and established the Colombian Army Escuela de Lanceros (Ranger School).

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.

Reinaldo Lizardi

Reinaldo Lizardi (born October 23, 1954) is a retired sprinter from Venezuela, best known for winning the bronze medal in the men's 100 metres at the 1979 South American Championships in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Rosa Tavarez

Tavarez's artworks are shown at museums, art galleries and permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Casa de Las Americas in Havana, Cuba, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, the Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and the Museums of Modern Art in London, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela.

San Onofre

San Onofre, Sucre, a municipality in the Sucre Department of Colombia

Santa Rosa de Yavari

Santa Rosa de Yavari is an Amazonian town in the Mariscal Ramón Castilla Province in the Loreto Region of Peru, located in an island in the Amazon River in front of the cities of Leticia (Colombia) and Tabatinga (Brazil).

Santiago Montoya Muñoz

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

Sigrid Romero

Romero was born in Cali, Colombia, the daughter of Ramon Romero and Patricia Duque.

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.

Stansell

Keith Stansell, American who was held hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia during 2003–2008

Taraza

Tarazá - a municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia.

Tobón

Postobón, soft drink company founded 1904 Medellín, Colombia by Gabriel Posada and Valerio Tobón (whose names combine to form the name the Postobón)

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).