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Colombia 
Medellín and Bogotá

JUNE 12 - 21

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INDIGENEOUS HERITAGE: Muisca, Quimbaya, and Tairona (among others)
COLONIZED BY SPAIN: early-1500s
INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN: 1821 and 1830

LANGUAGE: Spanish

NOTABLE COLOMBIAN WRITERS and ARTISTS:
  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1982)
   Laura Restrepo, novelist and journalist
   ​Evelin Rosero, novelist
   Fernando Botero, painter and sculptor
   Shakira, singer
   Sofía Vergara, actor
   John Leguizamo, actor
   
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Fernando Botero
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