Palmira

[pahl-mee-rah]

noun

1. a city in W Colombia.

Palmira

/ palˈmira /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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“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.

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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.

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Last week, researchers and officials dedicated a $17 million gene bank facility in Palmira, Colombia, with a high metal canopy intended to evoke a forest.

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This week, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and Bioversity International dedicated a $17 million facility, Future Seeds, in Palmira, Colombia, with a new genomics lab and 30% more storage than its predecessor there.

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