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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.
Within Colombia, 66% of export-quality flowers are grown in the department of Cundinamarca, where the capital of Bogotá is situated. Thirty-three percent are grown in the northwestern state of ...
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 ...
The population of Antioquia is 6,994,792 (2023), of which more than half live in the metropolitan area of Medellín. The racial composition is: [13] White / Mestizo (88.6%) Black or Afro-Colombian (10.9%) Indigenous or Amerindian (0.5%) During the 16th and 18th centuries, Antioquia received many immigrants from Spain, especially northern Spain.
Between 1850 and 1857 the country experienced a significant increase in tobacco and quinine exports, and thereafter leather and live cattle. These early efforts in the export of agricultural commodities turned out too fragile; they in fact were only reactionary attempts to find the greatest profitability from the high international prices of ...
The first group of Spanish to discover what is now Antioquia Department was headed by Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas who entered through the Darién region in 1500. . Ten years later the Spanish conqueror Alonso de Ojeda entered with another group of Spanish conquerors and founded the village of San Sebastián de Urabá which function as a "business center" for the Spanish, this village ...
Starbucks says it bought coffee farms in Central America because of climate change fears. The beverage and food corporation said it's trying own more farms to better 'climate-proof' its operations.
San Carlos is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia, part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. It is called the hydro-electrical capital of Colombia, because it has many dams and it produces much energy. The population was 14,480 at the 2018 census.