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Bucaramanga, the Glossary

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  1. 82 relations: Adidas, Andean natural region, Argentina, Atlético Bucaramanga, Atta laevigata, Autonomous University of Bucaramanga, Barichara, Bavaria, Brazil, Cali, Canada, Carlos Ardila Lülle, Carrefour, Celsius, Chicamocha National Park, Cinemark Theatres, Coliseo Bicentenario, Colombia, Cordillera Oriental (Colombia), Departments of Colombia, Dulce de leche, Eastern Time Zone, Ecopetrol, Ecuador, Energy, Estadio Américo Montanini, Eucharist, Floridablanca, Santander, Fricassee, Geo von Lengerke, Gross domestic product, Gustavo Lorgia, Height above mean sea level, Industrial University of Santander, Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Colombia), Italy, José Antonio Galán, Juan Valdez, Julián Leal, Köppen climate classification, Lebrija, Santander, Levi Strauss & Co., Louis Peru de Lacroix, Luis Carlos Galán, Manuela Beltrán, Mayor, McDonald's, Mexico, Mile, Municipalities of Colombia, ... Expand index (32 more) »

  2. 1622 establishments in the Spanish Empire
  3. Capitals of Colombian departments
  4. Populated places established in 1622

Adidas

Adidas AG (stylized in all lowercase since 1949) is a German athletic apparel and footwear corporation headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany.

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Andean natural region

The Andean region, located in central Colombia, is the most populated natural region of Colombia.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Atlético Bucaramanga

Club Atlético Bucaramanga S.A., better known as Atlético Bucaramanga, is a Colombian professional football team based in Bucaramanga.

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Atta laevigata

Atta laevigata (Smith, 1858) is one of about a dozen species of leafcutter ants in the genus Atta, found from Venezuela and south to Paraguay.

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Autonomous University of Bucaramanga

The Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga or UNAB (Autonomous University of Bucaramanga) is a private post-secondary education institution in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

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Barichara

Barichara is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Bucaramanga and Barichara are municipalities of Santander Department.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Cali

Santiago de Cali, or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by DANE in 2023. Bucaramanga and Cali are capitals of Colombian departments.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carlos Ardila Lülle

Carlos Ardila Lülle (June 4, 1930 – August 13, 2021) was a Colombian entrepreneur and the founder and head of the Organización Ardila Lülle, a major Colombian conglomerate which controls companies such as RCN TV, the Postobon soft drink, and the Atlético Nacional football team.

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Carrefour

Carrefour Group, S.A. (Groupe Carrefour), is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France.

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Celsius

The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure." (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale.

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Chicamocha National Park

Chicamocha National Park (Spanish:Parque Nacional del Chicamocha), also known as Panachi, is a Colombian national level natural park along the Chicamocha Canyon (Cañón del Chicamocha) located 50 km from the city of Bucaramanga, Santander.

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Cinemark Theatres

Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (stylized as CineMark from 1998 to 2022 and in all caps since 2022) is an American movie theater chain that started operations in 1984 and since then it has operated theaters with hundreds of locations throughout the Americas.

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Coliseo Bicentenario

Coliseo Bicentenario Alejandro Galvis Ramírez, mostly known as Coliseo Bicentenario, is an indoor sporting arena, located in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)

The Cordillera Oriental (Eastern Ranges) is the widest of the three branches of the Colombian Andes.

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Departments of Colombia

Departments of Colombia refer to the administrative divisions of Colombia.

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Dulce de leche

Dulce de leche, caramelized milk, milk candy, or milk jam is a confectionery popular in Latin America, France, Poland, and the Philippines prepared by slowly heating sugar and milk over several hours.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Ecopetrol

Ecopetrol, formerly known as Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos S.A. (Colombian Petroleum Co.) is the largest and primary petroleum company in Colombia.

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Ecuador

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

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Energy

Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.

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Estadio Américo Montanini

Estadio Américo Montanini (formerly Alfonso López) is a sports venue located in the Colombian city of Bucaramanga.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (from evcharistía), also known as Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others.

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Floridablanca, Santander

Floridablanca (locally also simply Florida) is a municipality in the department of Santander situated at an altitude of in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Bucaramanga and Floridablanca, Santander are municipalities of Santander Department.

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Fricassee

Fricassee or fricassée is a stew made with pieces of meat that have been browned in butter then served in a sauce flavored with the cooking stock.

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Geo von Lengerke

Geo von Lengerke (born August 31, 1827 Georg Ernst Heinrich von Lengerke, Dohnsen (Weser) in the then Duchy of Brunswick in northern Germany; died July 1882 in Zapatoca, Santander, Colombia) was a German engineer, merchant and landowner.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Gustavo Lorgia

Gustavo Adolfo Lorgia Vanegas (18 May 1951 – 14 June 2024) was a Colombian businessman and an illusionist.

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Height above mean sea level

Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.

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Industrial University of Santander

The Industrial University of Santander (Universidad Industrial de Santander), abbreviated in Spanish with the acronym UIS, is a public university, based in a coeducational, and research model.

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Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Colombia)

The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales), also known by its acronym in Spanish, IDEAM, is a government agency of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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José Antonio Galán

José Antonio Galán (c. 1749 in Charalá, Santander (New Kingdom of Granada) – February 2, 1782 in Santafé de Bogotá (Id.)) was a Neogranadine historical figure of the 18th century. He was the leader of the Comuneros insurrection in 1781, who was then sentenced and executed by the Spanish.

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Juan Valdez

Juan Valdez is a fictional character who has appeared in advertisements for the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia since 1958, representing a Colombian coffee farmer. The advertisements were designed by the Doyle Dane Bernbach ad agency, with the goal of distinguishing 100%-Colombian coffee from coffee blended with beans from other countries.

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Julián Leal

Ómar Julián Leal Covelli, commonly known as Julián Leal, (born May 11, 1990 in Bucaramanga) is a professional racing driver from Colombia.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Lebrija, Santander

Lebrija is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Bucaramanga and Lebrija, Santander are municipalities of Santander Department.

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Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi Strauss & Co. is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans.

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Louis Peru de Lacroix

Louis Peru de Lacroix (14 September 1780 – 1837) was a French general who battled in the army of Napoleon I and later travelled to Colombia, where he joined the army of Simón Bolívar.

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Luis Carlos Galán

Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento (29 September 1943 – 18 August 1989) was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions, the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he founded in 1979.

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Manuela Beltrán

Manuela Beltrán was a Neogranadine woman who organized a peasant revolt against excess taxation in 1780.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Mile

The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.

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Municipalities of Colombia

The municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia.

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Mute (soup)

Mute is a Colombian cuisine soup from Boyacá and Santander departments.

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National Administrative Department of Statistics

The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística), commonly referred to as DANE, is the Colombian Administrative Department responsible for the planning, compilation, analysis and dissemination of the official statistics of Colombia.

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National Games of Colombia

The National Games of Colombia, known in Spanish as the Juegos Deportivos Nacionales, is the premier multi-sport event of Colombia at national level.

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Natural regions of Colombia

Because of its natural structure, Colombia can be divided into six distinct natural regions.

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Oblea

Oblea is a wafer dessert from several coutries in Latin America, and has variants across Europe.

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils).

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Oscar Rodríguez Naranjo

Oscar Rodríguez Naranjo (1907–2006) was a painter from Socorro, Santander Department, Colombia.

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Palonegro International Airport

Palonegro International Airport is an international airport located west of Bucaramanga in the Santander Department of Colombia.

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Panama City

Panama City, also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama.

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Paragliding

Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Piedecuesta

Piedecuesta (officially Villa de San Carlos del Pie de la Cuesta) is a city and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia, South America. Bucaramanga and Piedecuesta are municipalities of Santander Department.

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Pontifical Bolivarian University

The Pontifical Bolivarian University (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana), also referred to as UPB, is a private university in Colombia with its main campus in Medellín, where it was founded in 1936.

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Real Santander

Real Santander is a professional Colombian football team based in Bucaramanga, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. They play their home games at the Estadio Villa Concha in Piedecuesta, a municipality in the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga.

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Sacred Heart

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus Christ is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind".

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Saint Thomas Aquinas University

Saint Thomas University (Universidad Santo Tomás) is a Roman Catholic university located in Bogotá, Colombia.

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San Gil

San Gil is a town and municipality in the Department of Santander in northeastern Colombia, located roughly 300 km (192 mi) from Bogotá and 95 km from the department's capital, Bucaramanga. Bucaramanga and San Gil are municipalities of Santander Department.

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San Juan de Girón

San Juan de Girón (better known as Girón), formerly: Villa de los Caballeros de Girón, is a municipality of the Santander Department, which is part of the Bucaramanga Metropolitan area in northeastern Colombia. Bucaramanga and San Juan de Girón are municipalities of Santander Department.

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Santander Department

Santander is a department of Colombia.

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Simón Bolívar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.

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Socorro, Santander

Socorro is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Bucaramanga and Socorro, Santander are municipalities of Santander Department.

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Tamale

A tamale, in Spanish, is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaves.

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Televisión Regional del Oriente

Televisión Regional del Oriente (Eastern Regional Television, TRO) is a Colombian regional public television network, created in 1997.

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Terpel

Terpel, formerly known as Organización Terpel S.A. (Terpel Organization), is a Colombian oil and gas company.

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Thousand Days' War

The Thousand Days' War (Guerra de los Mil Días) was a civil war fought in Colombia from 17 October 1899 to 21 November 1902, at first between the Liberal Party and the government led by the National Party, and later – after the Conservative Party had ousted the National Party – between the liberals and the conservative government.

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Tropical monsoon climate

An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category Am.

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Tropical rainforest climate

A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vanguardia (Colombian newspaper)

Vanguardia (Vanguard), formerly Vanguardia Liberal, is a Colombian regional newspaper, founded in September 1919 in Bucaramanga, Colombia, by Alejandro Galvis Galvis, whose descendants are its current owners.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup

The 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup was the eighth FIFA Futsal World Cup, the quadrennial international futsal championship contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA.

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See also

1622 establishments in the Spanish Empire

Capitals of Colombian departments

Populated places established in 1622

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucaramanga

Also known as Bucaramanga, Colombia, Bucaramanga, Santander, Municipal Flag of Bucaramanga.

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