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BUENAVENTURA

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 752 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUENAVENTURA  , a Pacific

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port of
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Colombia, in the
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department of
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Cauca, about 210 M . W.S.W. of
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Bogota . Pop. about 1200 . .The
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town is situated on a small
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island, called Cascajal, at the
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head of a broad
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estuary or
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bay projecting inland from the Bay of Choc6 and to m. from its mouth . Its
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geographical position is
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lat . 3° 48' N.,
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long . 770 12' W . The estuary is deep enough for vessels of 24 ft.
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draught and affords an excellent
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harbour . Buenaventura is a port of
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call for two lines of steamers (
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English and
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German), and is the Colombian landing-
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place 'of the
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West
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Coast
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cable . The town is mean in
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appearance, and has a very unhealthy
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climate, oppressively hot and humid . It is the port for the upper
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basin of the Cauca, an elevated and fertile region, with two large commercial centres,
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Popayan and
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Cali . In 1907 a railway was under construction to the latter, and an
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extension to Bogota was also projected .

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