Bucaramanga

[boo-kah-rah-mahng-gah]

noun

1. a city in N Colombia.

Bucaramanga

/ bukaraˈmanɡa /

noun

1. a city in N central Colombia, in the Cordillera Oriental: centre of a district growing coffee, tobacco, and cotton. Pop: 1 069 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Peaceful protests also took place in cities including Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla and Bucaramanga, according to police.

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Born in 1935 in Ghent, Belgium, to a Belgian mother and a Colombian father, Nova spent her early childhood in Bucaramanga, the capital of the Santander region in northeastern Colombia.

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She has co-ordinated the response to the migration in the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, which has received more than 40,000 Venezuelans in recent years.

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Petro’s rival, Hernández, the former mayor of Bucaramanga who had never held or run for a national office before, ran on a singular message of rooting out corruption.

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At the polls in Bucaramanga, many voters did not seem troubled by the accusation.

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