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MANIZALES

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 586 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANIZALES  , a

city of
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Colombia and capital of the department of Caldas (up to 1905 the
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northern
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part of Antioquia, 75 M . S. of
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Medellin, on the old trade route across the
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Cordillera between Honda, on the Magdalena, and the
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Cauca Valley . Pop . (1906, estimate), 20,000 . The city is situated on a plateau of the western slope of the Cordillera, 6988 ft. above the sea . It is surrounded by rich
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mineral and agricultural districts .

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