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Fun Facts About Colombia
- According to the New Economic Foundation studies, Colombia has the second most happy population of the World. Vanuatu Island (Pacific Ocean / Population: 209) is at number one in this ranking.
- At the region of Chocó, located in the Pacific region, rains approx 10.000 mm per year.
- Colombia is the only south American country that has coast on both oceans, Pacific and Atlantic.
- The soap opera “Yo soy Betty, La Fea” (I´m Betty, the ugly), has been broadcasted in more than 50 countries and has its own international cartoon series.
- At Zipaquira, exists an underground church made within a salt mine.
- Deep in the Amazonas jungle, the tiny Golden Arrow frog lives. Its poison is the most lethal in the world: one frog´s poison can kill 1500 people.
- Colombia was named was named in honor of Cristoforo Colombo, who discovered America.
- At the Sierra de la Macarena, runs the 7 Color River, unique in its kind in the world.
- Colombia is the first Latin American producer of gold, silver, coal and ferronickel.
- The Sierra Nevada is the largest coastal mountain in the world reaching from the sea upwards to a height of 5.778 mts above sea level.
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