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About half of Colombia's sugar output is exported, one quarter is used for domestic consumption, and the rest is sold as an input to the industrial sector. Colombia is the seventh-largest exporter of raw sugar in the world and the fifth-largest exporter of refined sugar, with exports of US$369 million in 2006.
The economy of Colombia is the fourth largest in Latin America as measured by gross domestic product [19] and the third-largest economy in South America. [20] [21] Throughout most of the 20th century, Colombia was Latin America's 4th and 3rd largest economy when measured by nominal GDP, real GDP, GDP (PPP), and real GDP at chained PPPs. Between ...
Colombia is home to more than 4,200 species of orchids and, at the Alma del Bosque, Piedrahita and his team have built a collection of more than 5,000 different species, with plants from Colombia ...
Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. VIII, Latin America since 1930, Spanish South America, pp. 587–628. New York: Cambridge University Press 1991. Abel, Christopher. "Colombia since 1958" in Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. VIII, Latin America since 1930, Spanish South America, pp. 629–686. New York: Cambridge University Press ...
Antioquia (Spanish pronunciation: ⓘ) is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys , much of which is part of the Andes mountain range.
While a 2011 New York Times article claimed that regional climate change associated with global warming had caused Colombian coffee production to decline from 12 million 132-pound bags, the standard measure, to 9 million bags between 2006 - 2010, with average temperatures rising 1 degree Celsius between 1980 and 2010, and average precipitation ...
By 1969, there were over 400,000 landless families in Colombia, with an annual increase of 40,000 per year since 1961. [17] [18] By 1970, latifundio (large farms of over 50 hectares), held approximately 77% of the land in Colombia. [19] In 1971, 70% of the farmland in Colombia was owned by 5.7% of the population. [20]
Cannabis has been cultivated in Colombia since the late colonial period, when hemp was grown for its industrial fibres. However even at that early state, cannabis was recognized for its psychoactive uses, but these remained largely confined to the fringes of Colombian society, and discouraged by the Catholic church and national law. [ 1 ]