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Palmira

American  
[pahl-mee-rah] / pɑlˈmi rɑ /

noun

  1. a city in W Colombia.


Palmira British  
/ palˈmira /

noun

  1. a city in W Colombia: agricultural trading centre. Pop: 253 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Bodies are instead being transported to the nearby city of Palmira, where dozens of people have gathered, hoping for news of missing loved ones.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Palmira Figueroa, director of communications for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said 13 people were detained in the raid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

“It was their culture, their history, their ancestry, and it was ripped away from them in the worst way,” said Miguel Ibarra, a doctoral researcher of Afro-Latino history in the nearby city of Palmira.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Taipei's embassy in the leafy Palmira neighborhood was for years one of the Central American capital's most prominent foreign outposts, as well as the country's second-biggest embassy after the U.S. embassy.

From Reuters ● Mar. 27, 2023

So I came home and looked out of the window onto the deserted and neglected streets of my Northern Palmira….

From Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated by James P. Smythe

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