Bucaramanga is the capital and largest city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth-largest economy by GDP in Colombia, has the highest GDP per capita in Colombia, has the lowest unemployment rate and has the ninth-largest population in the country, with 581,130 people. Bucaramanga has over 160 parks scattered throughout the city and has been given the nickname "La Ciudad de Los Parques" and "La Ciudad Bonita de Colombia".
The Colombian Conservative Party is a conservative political party in Colombia. The party was formally established in 1849 by Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and José Eusebio Caro.
La Vanguardia is a Spanish daily newspaper, founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan. It has its headquarters in Barcelona and is Catalonia's leading newspaper.
The Social Party of National Unity, or Party of the U is a centrist and social liberal political party in Colombia. The Party is led by former president Juan Manuel Santos. It was formerly Colombia's largest political party, in a coalition with the Liberal Party and Radical Change, until it lost 7 seats in the 2018 parliamentary elections and presidential elections.
Amphidraus is a genus of South American jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1900. It was previously considered a synonym of Nebridia, but this was later rejected by Jerzy Prószyński, who claimed that merging the two genera wasn't supported by previous diagnostic drawings.
Curiti is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in North-Eastern Colombia. The area is famous for crafts made from fique, or agave sisal.
Free University of Colombia, also called Unilibre, is a nonsectarian, coeducational, private and nonprofit university based in Bogota, Colombia, with six satellite campuses located in Cali, Barranquilla, Pereira, Cartagena, Cucuta, and Socorro. It is considered one of Colombia's most comprehensive university systems, receiving a high quality accreditation from the Ministry of Education for 4 years, and offers sixty-seven degree programs at the undergraduate level and one hundred sixty-three graduate level programs.
The Latin American Newspaper Association is a press group representing media organizations in Latin America. Founded in 2008, it represents 16 newspapers in 11 countries, as well as magazines.
Natalia Navarro Galvis is a Colombian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Señorita Colombia 2009 and placed in the Top 15 at Miss Universe 2010.
Alejandro Galvis Galvis was a Colombian publisher and politician.
Movistar Team was a Colombian UCI Continental cycling team.
The 39th South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Medellín, Colombia in the Estadio Alfonso Galvis Duque from September 23–25, 2011. A detailed report on the results was given.
Ana Galvis Hotz was the first Colombian woman to have obtained a medical degree as a Doctor of Medicine.
Coliseo Bicentenario Alejandro Galvis Ramírez, mostly known as Coliseo Bicentenario is an indoor sporting arena, located in Bucaramanga, Colombia. The stadium was built in 2011 for the AMF Futsal Men's World Cup and is part of the Villa Olímpica Alfonso López, which is also composed by the Alfonso López stadium. The capacity of the stadium is for 7,000 spectators. Coliseo Bicentenario is currently used by futsal team Real Bucaramanga and was used previously by the now-defunct team Bucaramanga FSC. The stadium hosted the 2012 FIRS Senior Men's Inline Hockey World Championships. and was one of the three stadiums that hosted the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Virginia Maria Machado is a Colombian model and actress. She has acted in TV series and appeared in music videos.
Sandra Viviana Galvis Gómez is a Colombian race walker. She competed in the women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Media ownership in Colombia is highly concentrated. The four largest newspapers together account for two-thirds of total readership, and the two largest television channels have about two-thirds of the market and 78% of advertising revenues, according to a 2016 study by Reporters Without Borders and the Colombian Federation of Journalists.
The Bahía Solano Fault, Utría Fault or Utría-Bahía Solano Fault is a westward dipping thrust fault in the department of Chocó on the Pacific Coast of Colombia. The fault has a total length of 290.6 kilometres (180.6 mi) and runs along an average north-south strike of 347 ± 13 from the Panama-Colombia border to Bajo Baudó. The fault is partly offshore in the bays of Solano and Utría and crosses the Chocó Basin and the coastal Serranía del Baudó. Movement of the fault produced the Mw 6.5 1970 Bahía Solano earthquake.
