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Buenaventura

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Buenaventura , city (1993 pop. 194,727), W Colombia, a port on the Pacific Ocean. The city, located on Cascajal Island in Buenaventura Bay, is the shipping point for the coffee, cotton, and sugar of the Cauca valley. Platinum, gold, hides, and shrimp are also exported. The original settlement was founded in 1545 and was burned by natives at the end of the 16th cent. Buenaventura's importance as a port came with the opening of the Panama Canal and with the improvement of communications inland in the 1930s. Author not available, BUENAVENTURA. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition... Read more
Buenaventura Baez
Buenaventura Baez Buenaventura Baez (1812-1884) was five times president of the Dominican Republic...decades. Born of wealthy mulatto parents in Azua de Compostela, Buenaventura Baez was educated in Europe and returned to his homeland as one... Read more
Buenaventura Báez
, c.1810-1884, president of the Dominican Republic (1849-53; 1856-58; 1865-66; 1868-73). Like his rival, Santana , Báez was unscrupulous and selfish; he gained and lost the presidency by revolution and counterrevolution. With his country in a condition of financial ruin and recurrently gripped by Read more

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