Colombia
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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 |
Fernando Botero
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