Answer: Emerald
Some of the rarest and most expensive emeralds in the world come from three main emerald mining areas in Colombia: Muzo, Coscuez, and Chivor.
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: Bogota D.C.
The capital city of Colombia was founded with the name of 'Santa Fe', then it became Santafe de Bogota in honour of the Bacata Indians in the area. It was then renamed Santafe de Bogota, D.C. and finally, it's just Bogota.
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: Central
Bogotá is the largest city in Colombia and is in the centre of the country. It sits on a plateau called Bogotá savanna. The city's airport is named after the mythical El Dorado, a tribal chief or city that was ritually covered in gold. Since the 16th century, explorers of the region have tried to find the hidden gold.
From Quiz: Colombia: What Can You See?
Answer: Valle del Cauca
The Champus is a drink made from lulo, a sour fruit, and maiz peto which is a kind of corn.
From Quiz: Colombia
Answer: Coffee
Colombia is the second largest exporter of coffee, it exports over 672 million-kg of coffee a year, which makes up over 12% of the world's coffee trade.
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: San Andres y Providencia
San Andres and Providencia is the only island-state (departamento) in Colombia. It is located in front of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast Line. It is actually closer to Nicaragua than Colombia.
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: Tequendama Falls
The Bogotá River flows northeast to southwest and, 32 kilometres southeast of Bogotá, reaches the Tequendama Falls. The waterfall is 132m high. In comparison, Angel Falls in Venezuela is 979 metres. That makes Angel Falls about seven times higher, but Tequendama Falls is still incredibly beautiful.
There is a building next to the waterfall that was built as a mansion in the 1920s. It then became a hotel, and is now a museum dedicated to ecology.
From Quiz: Colombia: What Can You See?
Answer: Boyaca
Simon Bolivar was born on July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela and died on December 17, 1830 in Santa Marta, Colombia.
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: Cucuta
Cucuta is the most important city on the border with Venezuela. It's a very commercial city.
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: A type of music
Vallenato rules! Rafael Escalona, Carlos Vives, Alejo Durán, Jaime Molina, they are all artists of this type of music.
From Quiz: Colombia
Answer: Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero was born in Medellin, Colombia, on 19 April 1932, In 1993 he was honored with an exhibition of his sculpture along the Champs Elysees, the first non-French artist to exhibit at this venue.
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: Leticia
Leticia is the largest city in the Colombian Amazon Jungle.
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: A Roman Catholic church
Las Lajas Sanctuary is a basilica church in Ipiales, in western Colombia. It's built in a Guáitara River canyon in the Andes, and is connected to the other side by a bridge. It looks spectacular! The site claims to be the location of an apparition of the Virgin Mary to a mother and her daughter. A shrine was built to honour Mary, and a church was erected some years later.
From Quiz: Colombia: What Can You See?
Answer: 1957
Rojas Pinilla made it possible. He was born in the year 1900 in Boyaca. He was president of Colombia from 1953 to 1957.
From Quiz: Colombia
Answer: Liberals and Conservatives
By the second decade of the 21st century, the Colombian political system had become multi-party.
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: 5
Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Panama.
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: 10%
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: Pico Simón Bolivar and Pico Colon
Pico Simón Bolivar and Pico Colon are the highest points in Colombia. They're on the 'sierra nevada de santa marta' and it's the highest mountain next to an ocean in the world. You can see a snow capped mountain when you're at the beach.
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: Panama
The Colombian border with Panama is in the west of Colombia. The Pan-American Highway extends all the way from Alaska to Argentina and is over 30,000 kilometres long. There is, however, the Darién Gap. It is an area of swampland, marshland, and rainforest that will be expensive to build over, and not very environmentally friendly.
From Quiz: Colombia: What Can You See?
Answer: Shakira, John Leguizamo, Carlos Vives
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: Coffee
Some of the main items that Colombia exports to the US are oil, coal, gold, flowers, tropical fruits, and coffee. The National Coffee Park (Parque Nacional del Café) is in central Colombia and features a range of roller coasters, food stalls, and museum exhibitions, all of which centre around coffee. As a coffee lover, this place is high on my list of things to see!
From Quiz: Colombia: What Can You See?
Answer: Condor
The majestic Andean Condor.
From Quiz: Colombia
Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: None
The Colombian flag doesn't have any stars. It has 3 stripes, yellow is on top and it's half of the flag. The other half is divided in two stripes: blue in the middle and red on the bottom.
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: It was built in a mine.
Due to structural problems, the original church that was carved into an active mine was declared unsafe. A competition was held to design a new church, which now sits 60 metres under the old one. Within the new church, there are 14 small chapels that represent the stations of the cross, three naves, and a dome. Some of the rooms are made of tunnels that already existed as part of the mine.
From Quiz: Colombia: What Can You See?
Answer: Honda, Tolima
Honda has a lot of bridges that cross the river Magdalena and others.
From Quiz: Colombia
Answer: Flowers
Colombia is the second largest fresh cut flower exporter in the world and its flowers are beautiful, fresh and of a very good quality
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: strips of cane
The sombrero vueltiao is a type of hat that is made from a palm leaf called arrow cane. It is made by some native tribes in the department of Cordoba. Some say that it is the most representative symbol of Colombia.
From Quiz: Colombia
Answer: Guatavita
Fifty kilometers from Bogota is the colonial town of Guatavita and the famous Laguna de Guatavita, the ritual center and sacred lake of the Musica Indians, and the cradle of the El Dorado myth.
From Quiz: The Beautiful Face of Colombia
Answer: Republic of Colombia
Hey guys, it's Colombia, not Columbia.
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: Cartagena
Cartagena was founded in the XVI century, and the slave trade flourished there into the XVIII century (which ended in 1801).
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: Avianca
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: Boyaca
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: Medellin
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: BOG
From Quiz: All About Colombia
Answer: 1962
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