Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of north-central Colombia in the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes. Founded in 1622, it is a leading commercial center.
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- proper noun A
city in northeasternColombia .
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Examples
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I had a really good one in Bucaramanga I will never forget as long as I live.
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Erika spent eight years in Bucaramanga, Colombia, with her mother and father, Juan Carlos, now a tennis pro in Indianapolis.
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Where Medellin is thought to be Basque and Jewish, Bucaramanga is mostly of Spanish descent.
Michael Fairbanks: The Colombian Elections: Who Will Be the Next President of Macondo? 2010
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Gonzalez was detained in Bucaramanga for more than one year starting in 2006, and remained incarcerated while awaiting trial on charges of rebellion and of being in charge of an urban militia force linked to the FARC guerrilla group.
Human Rights First: Colombia's Supreme Court in the Spotlight 2009
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In Holstein, the post office will send you a refund for excess postage in a letter, and the police will mail you the gold ring you forgot in their jail, but in Bucaramanga it is unwise to stop with the car´s window open when you are using a watch.
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Angostura, located 34.1 miles north east of Bucaramanga, Colombia's fifth-largest city, is expected to reach full capacity in 2014 with a total of 500,000 ounces of gold per year and 2.5 million to 3 million ounces of silver per year.
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AHURA, the Humanitarian Association for Animal Rescue, peacefully protested last Monday in Bucaramanga against the Mexican Circus, part of the Hermanos Gasca circus company who uses animals as part of their act.
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Uribe, a native of Bucaramanga, Columbia is the reigning U.S.
Amateur Golf Champ Maria Jose Uribe in Second Place at U.S. Women's Open 2008
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Local hotel chain Hoteles Royal, which operates franchises of Carlson Hotels Worldwide's Radisson brand, set aside about $30 million to build hotels in Bogota, Barranquilla and Bucaramanga and is weighing a fourth in Villavicencio.
Hoteliers Build in Colombia Diana Delgado 2007
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As well as its two ventures with Marriott, Real Hotels & Resorts, a division of El Salvador's Grupo Poma, also is considering constructing five hotels in the cities of Cali, Bucaramanga and Barranquilla, said the company's marketing director,
Hoteliers Build in Colombia Diana Delgado 2007
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