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IBAGUE, or SAN BONIFACIO DE IBAGUE

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IBAGUE, or
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SAN
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BONIFACIO DE IBAGUE  , a
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city of
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Colombia, and
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capital of the
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department of Tolima, about 6o m.W. of
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Bogota and 18 m . N.W. of the Nevado de Tolima . Pop . (1900, estimate) 13,000 .
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Ibague is built on a beautiful
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plain between the Chipalo and Combeima, small affluents of the Cuello, a western tributary of the Magdalena . Its
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elevation, 4300 ft. above the
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sea, gives it a mild, subtropical
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climate . The plain and the neighbouring valleys produce cacao,
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tobacco,
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rice and
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sugar-
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cane . There are two thermal springs in the vicinity, and undeveloped mines of
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sulphur and
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silver . The city has an endowed
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college . It is an important commercial centre, being on the road which crosses the Quindio pass, or paramo, into the
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Cauca valley . Ibague was founded in 1550 and was the capital of the
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republic for a
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short
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time in 1854 .

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