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Gorgona is a Colombian island in the Pacific Ocean situated about 28 km (17 mi) off the Colombian Pacific coast. The island is 9 km (5.6 mi) long and 2.5 km (1.6 mi) across at its widest, with a maximum height of 338 m (1,109 ft) and a total area of 26 km 2 (10 sq mi).
A map of Colombia Caribbean Sea islands ... Coco Island; Gorgona Island. ... Wikimedia Atlas of South America; World island information @ WorldIslandInfo.com
Brazil had a prison on the island of Fernando de Noronha from 1938 to 1945. Gorgona Island in Colombia housed a state high-security prison from the 1950s. Convicts were dissuaded from escaping by the venomous snakes in the interior of the island and by the sharks patrolling the 30 km to the mainland.
The vineyard at the Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony was first planted in 1999 but was soon abandoned, only to be revived 10 years later by an inmate of the penal colony who had a family vineyard in Sicily and wanted to restore the Gorgona vineyards. In 2012, Italian prison authorities inquired with various Italian wineries about partnering ...
Gran Colombia – Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela, and Northern Peru. Although Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, members of this region still share many cultural attributes in terms of food, language, music, and history. Peru-Bolivian Confederation; Andean regions – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Northern Chile, Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina.
Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador's unforgiving approach to ...
The insular region of Colombia includes the oceanic islands outside the continental territory. In the Caribbean this includes the San Andrés and Providencia islands near Central America and the many coastal islands along mainland Colombia. In the Pacific, it includes Gorgona Island and Malpelo Island. The ecosystems and wildlife found on these ...
On this day, July 22, 1992, President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the resort-like prison where he had ...