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This ecoregion, located within the Northern Andes, occurs along the dry inter-Andean valley formed by the Magdalena River, which is the largest in Colombia.
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There are also concerns of more problems in northern Colombia along the Magdalena River , where last year a giant break in a levee at Dique Canal caused millions of gallons of water to spill into the plains region, leaving half of the entire state of Atlántico under water.
Lashing Rains Intensify in Colombia Dan Molinski 2011
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Where Cali is famous for its drug wealth, public works, and visionary leaders, Barranquilla was once the most prosperous city in the Andes, a mantle it gave up when the Panama Canal made the city's envied position at the mouth of the Magdalena River obsolete.
Michael Fairbanks: The Colombian Elections: Who Will Be the Next President of Macondo? 2010
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The watershed drains towards the Atlantic Ocean through the Magdalena River; other important tributaries of the Magdalena are: from south to north, the Suaza, the Saldaña, the Sumapaz, the Chicamocha, the Carare and the Cauca with the Nechí.
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Hydrodynamic processes are governed by the Magdalena River, which has an effect on the western section of the ecoregion and by the rivers on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, which exclusively feed the Ciénaga Grande.
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It intermixes with the lateral floodplain of the Magdalena River that shows a tendency to become disconnected.
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Construction of highways to the north between the cities of Ciénaga and Barranquilla in 1956-1960 and on the eastern shore of the Magdalena River in the 1970s has lead to the disruption of most of the ecoregion from its natural state.
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In May I flew with Camilo Gómez to the airport at Barranca, by the Magdalena River.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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Its maintenance depends on the flow of waters and the entry of nutrients from adjacent ecosystems such as those contributions from the Magdalena River and the rivers of the Sierra Nevada.
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This quaternary plain was formed by the post-orogenic clastic depositing of sediment, derived from adjacent tectonic uplifts deposited in the basin of the lower Magdalena River that formed a platform of peat intercalated with sand and clay beds.
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