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GUADUAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of the See also:department of See also:Cundinamarca, See also:Colombia, 53 M. N.W. of See also:Bogota on the old road between that See also:city and the Magdalena See also:river See also:port of Honda. Pop. (1900, estimate) 9000, chiefly See also:Indians or of mixed See also:blood. It stands in a narrow and picturesque valley formed by spurs of the Eastern See also:Cordillera, and on a small stream bearing the same name, which is that of the See also:South See also:American See also:bamboo (guaduas), found in See also:great abundance along its See also:banks. See also:Sugar-See also:cane and See also:coffee are cultivated in the vicinity, and fruits of various kinds are produced in great abundance. The See also:elevation of the town is 3353 ft. above the See also:sea, and it has a remarkably See also:uniform temperature throughout the whole See also:year. Guaduas has a See also:pretty See also:church facing upon its plaza, and an old monastery now used for See also:secular purposes. The importance of the town sprang from its position on the old amino real between Bogota and Honda, an importance that has passed away with-the completion of the railway from Girardot to the Bogota See also:plateau. Guaduas was founded in 1614.

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