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21 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.

Abierto Internacional de Golf del Eje Cafetero

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

Clemencia

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

Congolese music

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

Cristian Del Real

Cristian Del Real is a professional musician, born in 1989 in Cartagena, Colombia.

Don Cuco El Guapo

The brains of the robot are based on the ILA 9200 microprocessor design in 1985 by scientists and engineers of Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Spain and Mexico.

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).

Jackie Gutiérrez

Joaquín Fernando "Jackie" Gutiérrez (born June 27, 1960 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and right-handed batter.

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.

Ognjen Stojanović

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

Orlando Ramírez

Orlando Ramírez Leal (born December 18, 1951 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and right-handed batter who played for the California Angels between 1974 and 1979.

Postage stamps and postal history of Colombia

From the Spanish Colonial era to modern times the history of Colombia has been marked by political change and instability which is reflected in its philatelic history.

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.

Rodrigo Arango Velásquez

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

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.

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.

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.


Adriana Kugler

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

AFEUR

Agrupación de Fuerzas Especiales Antiterroristas Urbanas, a counter-terrorism unit in the National Army of Colombia

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.

Antonio Ríos

Ríos got his first call up by interim coach Efraín Flores for friendly matches on September 4 and 7, 2010 against Ecuador and Colombia, respectively.

Avianca Flight 410

At the time, the crash of Flight 410 held the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Colombia until December 20, 1995 when American Airlines Flight 965 crashed in a mountain near Buga, Valle del Cauca, killing 159 people.

Beibis Mendoza

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

Carlos Hoyos

Carlos Mario Hoyos Jaramillo (born February 28, 1962 in Medellín) is a retired football defender who was capped 24 times for Colombia between 1985 and 1990.

Carlos Jacanamijoy

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

Carmen Moral

Since then, several orchestras have entrusted her with the post of Music Director, such as the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia), I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich (Vienna), the Symphony Orchestra of Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul), and, for a second time, the National Symphony orchestra of Peru.

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.

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).

Cristian Del Real

In August 2013, Del Real won the International Piano festival in Bogotá, 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.

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.

Felipe Peralta

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

Fiorella D'Croz Brusatin

Fiorella D'Croz Brusatin (born April 19, 1979 in Cali) is an athlete from Colombia, who competes in triathlon.

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.

Guajiboan languages

Guajiboan (also Guahiban, Wahívoan, Guahiboan) is a language family spoken in the Orinoco River region in eastern Colombia and southwestern Venezuela, which is a savannah-like area known in Colombia as the Llanos.

Henry Rojas

Henry Andres Rojas Delgado (born July 27, 1987 in Ibagué, Tolima) is a football striker from Colombia that plays for Deportes Tolima.

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.

Joe Angel

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

Joel Casique

He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Venezuela, the United States, and Aruba; he has also participated in national and international fairs, including the sixteenth and seventeenth Ferias Iberoamericanas de Arte (FIA) in Caracas; the 2007 Latin American Art Fair in Miami; and the 2006 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá (ARTBO) in Bogotá, Colombia.

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.

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".

Luigi Di Franco

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

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.

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.

Michael Hornstein

He worked as a Professor at the University Javeriana in Colombia in 2003.

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.

Of Love and Other Demons

Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1994.

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.

Panama hake

The Panama hake (Merluccius angustimanus) is a merluccid hake of the genus Merluccius, found off the west coast of the Americas from Del Mar, California, to Ensenada de Tumaco, Colombia.

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.

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.

Pink dolphin

The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) that live in the river systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

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).

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.

San Onofre

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

Santiago Arias

Santiago Arias Naranjo (born 13 January 1992 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a right back for Dutch club PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie.

Sergio Fajardo

As a journalist he was subdirector of El Colombiano and wrote a column for El Mundo, El Espectador and Dinero; he had roles in the TV programs Operación Ciudad in Telemedellín and Zanahoria in Teleantioquia and also formed part of the Viva FM Caracol Radio team.

Sigrid Romero

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

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.

Sussie 4

They have participated in collaborative presentations at festivals such as Techno Geist, Vive Latino Union Fest y Playa MTV in Mexico, Rock al Parque in Colombia, and Espárragos in Spain.

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.