WebGran Colombia (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɡɾaŋ koˈlombja] (), "Great Colombia"), or Greater Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia), was a state that encompassed much of northern South America and part of southern Central America from 1819 to 1831. It included present-day Colombia, mainland Ecuador (i.e. excluding …

WebThis is a list of flags of states, territories, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors.Flags emblazoned with seals, coats of arms, and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields.The color of text is almost entirely ignored. Colors related to the two metals of …

WebThe first indigenous people inhabiting Bogotá were the Muisca, who spoke Chibcha.At the arrival of the conquerors, the Muisca has been estimated to consist of 110,000 to two million people. The Muisca occupied the mild-climate highlands between the Sumapaz mountains to the southwest and the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy in the northeast. They lived within an …

WebThis is a summary of country name etymologies.. Bharat – original name for India, derived from either Dushyanta's son Bharata or Rishabha's son Bharata; Bolivia – Simón Bolívar; Cambodia – Kambu Svayambhuva; Colombia – Christopher Columbus (after the Italian version of his name, Cristoforo Colombo); Cook Islands – Captain James Cook; …

WebAntioquia (Spanish pronunciation: ()) is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central Northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea.Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part of the Andes mountain range. Antioquia has been part of many territorial divisions of former …

WebA historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that have ceased to exist as political entities, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.. The most recent sovereign states to cease to exist within …

WebThe Norte del Valle Cartel (Spanish: Cártel del Norte del Valle), or North Valley Cartel, was a drug cartel that operated principally in the north of the Valle del Cauca department of Colombia, most notably the coastal city of Buenaventura.It rose to prominence during the second half of the 1990s, after the Cali and Medellín Cartels fragmented, and it was …

WebSantiago de Cali (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe ˈkali]), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans 560.3 km 2 (216.3 sq mi) with 120.9 km 2 (46.7 sq mi) of urban area, making Cali the second-largest city in the …

WebAccording to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest temperature ever recorded was 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) on 10 July 1913 in Furnace Creek (Greenland Ranch), California, United States, but the validity of this record is challenged as possible problems with the reading have since been discovered. Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian …

WebB, or b, is the second letter of the Latin-script alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.Its name in English is bee (pronounced / ˈ b iː /), plural bees. It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to …