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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)

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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

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

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.

From Science Magazine

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.

From Science Magazine