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I need help I am going to Bogota in June I am trying to find a place in downtown for 3 weeks, I have not luck yet.

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INFO about Manizales Manizales is a city of 480,000 people and the capital of the department of Caldas, located in central Colombia. The city is located in the north of the "Zona Cafetera", near the volcano Nevado del Ruiz, at a height of about 2153 metres.

Manizales is an important cultural and educational center : it contains no less than 7 universities : Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de Caldas, Universidad de Manizales, Universidad Autonoma, Universidad Luis Amigo and Universidad Antonio Narino. It's known as the Coffee capital of the world, because it's the businesscenter of the "Zona Cafetera". Every year in January the "Feria de Manizales" is organized here (bullfights, beauty parades, folk dancing), one of the oldest ferias in the Americas.

The city of Manizales is described as having "abrupt topography"; it is built on a number of ridgelines and steep slopes. Combined with the seismic instability of the area, this has required architectural adaptations and public works to make the city safer.

The city is also known as the home of the football club Once Caldas, the surprise winner of the 2004

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INFO about San Andres San Andrés is the capital of the Colombian department of San Andrés y Providencia. Located east of Nicaragua, the San Andrés y Providencia archipelago belongs to Colombia due to a treaty (Esguerra-Bárcenas) signed on March 28, 1928 which states that Colombia recognizes Nicaraguan sovereignty of the island Mangle and Costa Mosquitia and Nicaragua recognizes Colombian sovereignty over San Andrés Island, Providencia Island, Santa Catalina Island, small island and keys around the archipelago.The island was discovered in 1629 by English puritans. For 200 years control of the Islands changed hands several times, falling under the domain of the Spanish, English, French, and Dutch at various times. The island was visited often by pirates, among them the English pirate Henry Morgan who used it as one of his operations centers. Many historians agree that the archipelago was discovered in 1629 by English Puritans and Jamaican woodcutters and was then conquered by the Spanish in the second half of the 17th century. For two hundred years the English, Dutch, French and Spanish disputed ownership. During that same period, the famous English pirate Henry Morgan used San Andrés as his base of operations and, according to legend, as a hideaway for his much acclaimed treasure.

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Info about Bucaramanga Bucaramanga is the capital of the department of Santander, Colombia.
This city exports mainly honey, fruits, meats, and timber.Bucaramanga is located in a plateau in the Cordillera Oriental
Many important personalities from Colombia are from Bucaramanga, such as Luis Carlos Galán, Horacio Serpa, and Felipe Azuero.

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INFO about SAN ANDRES CAN ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT IT I WANT TO VISTED SAN ANDRES BUT I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT

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How safe is BUCARAMANGA MY FAMILY IS FROM THIS CITY I AM GOING TO BE DOWN THEIR IN JANUARY
SO CAN ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT IT.

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Manizales I am going to be moving down their soon what can you tell me about Manizales

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Manizales I am look for english school in Manizales do you know any and if you do how much dose it cost?

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The Government of Colombia Colombia is governed under a 1991 constitution. The president serves a four-year term. The legislature, subservient to the president, consists of a senate and a house of representatives. The members are apportioned among the departments (states) and popularly elected for four-year terms. The supreme court is chosen by the president and the legislature. The Conservative and Liberal parties, formed in the 1800s, have generally dominated political life. To insure stability, the two formed the National Front Coalition in 1957 and agreed to divide the major offices between them and alternate in the presidency. The coalition, which ended in late 1973, was challenged in the 1960s by the Popular National Alliance, formed by the former dictator Rojas Pinilla.

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The Economy of Colombia Agriculture has traditionally been the chief economic activity in Colombia. An extremely wide variety of crops is grown, depending on altitude, but coffee is by far the major crop and its price on the world market has affected Colombia's economic health. Among the commercial crops, coffee is grown between elevations of 3,000 and 6,000 ft (914 and 1,829 m); bananas, cotton, sugarcane, oil palm, and tobacco are grown at lower elevations. Between 6,000 and 10,000 ft (1,829 and 3,048 m) potatoes, beans, grains, and temperate zone fruit and vegetables are grown.

Colombia is rich in minerals, including petroleum, natural gas, iron, nickel, coal, copper, gold, silver, platinum, and emeralds. The saltworks at Zipaquirá, near Bogotá, are world famous. Hydroelectric potential was developed during the 1970s and 80s. The manufacturing sector of the economy has expanded greatly in recent decades, although it is heavily dependent on imported materials. Beverages and processed foods, textiles, clothing and footwear, metal products, cement, and chemicals are the chief manufactures. Tourism is also a sizable source of income.

Oil replaced coffee as the nation's leading legal export in 1991. Other important official exports include petroleum-related products, coal, cotton, bananas, cut flowers, and sugar. Cocaine is the major illicit export, accounting for about 25% of foreign exchange earnings. Once most of the raw materials were grown in Peru and Bolivia, but cultivation has increased in Colombia as a result of those nations coca-eradication programs. The drug trade (Colombia also produces heroin and grows cannabis) has brought riches to some, but has seriously disrupted the fabric of Colombian society with its violence. Industrial and transportation equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, and paper products lead Colombia's imports. The United States and Germany are the chief trade partners.

Colombia joined the Andean Group, an economic organization of South American nations, in 1969, and has signed free-trade pacts with other Andean countries and Mexico. During the early 1990s the economy was growing quickly in comparison with that of other Latin American countries, and inflation and unemployment were under control. However, government spending and foreign debt soared in the late 1990s, the country suffered its worst recession in a century, and labor unrest and internal problems related to the drug trade continued to threaten the country's economic stability.

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INFO about Manizales Manizales , city (1993 pop. 303,136), alt. 7,063 ft (2,153 m), capital of Caldas dept., W central Colombia, on the slopes of the Cordillera Central. It is a commercial and agricultural center in a region that produces a large share of Colombia's coffee. There are minor industries in the city and some gold and silver mines nearby. Manizales was founded in 1847 by gold prospectors. The city was destroyed by an earthquake in 1878 and by fire in 1925. It is the seat of Caldas Univ.

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Palacio de Bellas Artes Fue declarado Monumento Nacional en 19958. Es una obra del ingeniero manizaleño José María Gómez Mejía; se podría asegurar que esta edificación inicia la tradición estilística conocida como “Arquitectura Moderna”, o “Arquitectura Funcionalista”, en la ciudad de Manizales. Esto se hace evidente en la utilización de un sistema constructivo basado en mampostería y concreto reforzado; en el manejo ortogonal de los volúmenes; en la funcionalidad de los espacios interiores y en la ausencia de decorados neoclasicistas. Es la sede de los Departamentos de Artes Escénicas, Artes Plásticas y Música de la Universidad de Caldas; está ubicado en el costado norte del Parque Olaya Herrera, al occidente del Centro Histórico

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Questions about manizales ONE OF MY BIGGIST PASS TIME IS DANCE WHERE ARE SOME GOOD PLACE TO GO TO DANCE IN MANIZALES

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COLOMBICHE HOW MUCH IS THE APARTMENT THAT YOUR AUNTS IS RENTING OUT

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Questions I AM GOING TO MANIZALES FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO JUNE 2006 I WOULD LIKE TO RENT THAT APARTMENT WHAT DO I NEED TO DO. HOW FAR IS ESTRADA FROM
LA ESTRELLA I HAVE A FRIEND THAT LIVE THEIR AND I WANT TO VIST HER THANK FOR ALL YOUR HELP

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Questions about manizales I am going to stay in Manizales in December and I am staying until June where can I find a job I am look for a job teaching english.

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shopping in manizales As far shopping for furnisher,beds,tables clothing,cable tv how much would it cost

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Manizales How much is apartment in Manizales cost with all utilities and included furnished and AC

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Manizales How much dose food cost in Manizales for 6 months?