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BUCARAMANGA

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUCARAMANGA  , a

city of
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Colombia, capital of the department of Santander, about 185 m . N.N.E. of Bogota . Pop . (estimate, 1902) 25,000 . It is situated on the Lebrija
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river, 3248 ft. above sea-level, in a mountainous country rich in gold,
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silver and iron mines, and having
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superior coffee-producing lands in the valleys and on the
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lower slopes . The city is laid out with wide, straight streets, is well built, and has many public buildings of a substantial character .

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