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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).
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 ...
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.
A map of Colombia Caribbean Sea islands ... Gorgona Island. El Horno Islet; ... Wikimedia Atlas of South America; World island information @ WorldIslandInfo.com
Gorgona (Colombia) Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Gorgona (Kolumbie) Usage on de.wikipedia.org Gorgona (Kolumbien) Usage on es.wikipedia.org Isla Gorgona; Crucero de la corbeta Rosa de los Andes; Usage on it.wikivoyage.org Gorgona (Colombia) Usage on nl.wikipedia.org Gorgona (Colombia) Usage on pl.wikipedia.org Park Narodowy Gorgona; Usage on ru ...
For years, the man known as Otoniel was seen as one of the world's most dangerous drug lords, the elusive boss of a cartel and paramilitary group with a blood-drenched grip on much of northern ...
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 ...
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 ...