BOYACÁ

bōyäkäˈ, town, Boyacá dept., N central Colombia, near Tunja. At Boyacá on Aug. 7, 1819, revolutionary forces under Simón Bolívar won the decisive engagement that assured the independence of present-day Colombia and Venezuela from Spain. Hydroelectric power is derived from the nearby Chivor dam.

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books on: BoyacA  - 135 results

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State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986-1994
Book by Harvey F. Kline; University of Alabama Press, 1999
Subjects: Barco, Virgilio, Colombia--Politics And Government--1974-, Conflict Management--Colombia, Guerrillas--Colombia, Human Rights--Colombia, Narcotics Dealers--Colombia, Paramilitary Forces--Colombia
...allowed to walk down the streets of Puerto Boyaca, unarmed, and was not arrested? The...authority in different parts of Puerto Boyaca--the police around the docks and other...paramilitary troops of Henry Perez in Puerto Boyaca were much better armed than the national...
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When Colombia Bled: A History of the Violencia in Tolima
Book by James D. Henderson; University of Alabama Press, 1985
Subjects: Colombia--Politics And Government--1946-1974, Violence--Colombia--History--20th Century
...the Eastern Cordillera departments of Boyaca, Santander, and Santander del Norte...government in 1930. 13 Places like Saboya, in Boyaca, and Guaca, Piedecuesta, and Capitanejo...intended to avenge it. The bloodshed in Boyaca received impetus from a common belief...
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Coca and Cocaine: An Andean Perspective
Book by Felipe E. Mac Gregor, Jonathan Cavanagh, Rosemary Underhay; Greenwood Press, 1993
Subjects: Coca--Economic Aspects--Bolivia, Coca--Economic Aspects--Peru, Cocaine Industry--Bolivia, Cocaine Industry--Colombia, Cocaine Industry--Peru, Drug Traffic--Bolivia, Drug Traffic--Colombia, Drug Traffic--Peru
...drug traffickers who operate in the vicinity of Puerto Boyaca Boyaca use the Association of Peasants and Farmers of Magdalena...disposal spread throughout the municipalities of Puerto Boyaca and Otanche Boyaca , Cimitarra and Puerto Olaya Santander...
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Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia
Book by Steven Dudley; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Colombia--Politics And Government--1974-, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias De Colombia, Insurgency--Colombia--History, Political Violence--Colombia--History, State-Sponsored Terrorism--Colombia--History
...stood ten feet high in a plaza in Puerto Boyaca. The bust was made after Guarin was shot...his drug business. For people in Puerto Boyaca, it didnt matter. Under Guarins watchful...town, a sign read, "Welcome to Puerto Boyaca the anti-subversive capital of Colombia...
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The Basis of a Development Program for Colombia
Book by Lauchlin Currie; International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1950
Subjects: Colombia--Economic Conditions--1918-, Colombia--Economic Policy
...intan- gible, but important, point. Boyaca and Santander are poor depart- ments...rather than to provide employment in Boyaca. Other things could be done to improve the conditions of people in Boyaca at much less cost to the community...
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journal articles on: BoyacA  - 11 results

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"One Sows the Seed, but It Has Its Own Dynamics": an Interview with Orlando Fals Borda
Journal article by Lola Cendales, Fernando Torres, Alfonso Torres; International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 1, 2005
...doctorate with the thesis on El hombre y la tierra en Boyaca Man and Land in Boyaca, which was published as a book even before Campesinos...four times to work on the doctoral dissertation in Boyaca, because of the problem of the small rural properties...
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Natural Resources and Conflict in Colombia: Complex Dynamics, Narrow Relationships
Journal article by Stéphanie Lavaux; International Journal, Vol. 62, 2006
Subjects: Colombia, Conflicts, Economic conditions, Environmental impact, Natural resources, Political power
...and southern Bolivar, emerald mines in Boyaca, and oil exploitation in Arauca. That...state control in areas of production like Boyaca and Cundinamarca. Officially, Colombia...This way, the two emerald belt zones of Boyaca and Cundinamarca have experienced the...
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Learning to Kill by Proxy: Colombian Paramilitaries and the Legacy of Central American Death Squads, Contras, and Civil Patrols
Journal article by Victoria Sanford; Social Justice, Vol. 30, 2003
Subjects: Castano, Carlos--Military policy, Colombia--Military aspects, Colombian foreign relations, National Liberation Army (Colombia)--Military aspects, United States foreign relations, United States. Department of State
...partnership between the town mayor of Puerto Boyaca, Captain Oscar de Jesus Echandia, and...opposition to MAS, including a Puerto Boyaca town councilman, a Liberal Party political...Meta, Cundinamarca, Cordoba, Caqueta, Boyaca, and Antioquia. All are sites of tremendous...
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Open Forum
Journal article by Frank Smyth; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...Colombia with attacks like the 1989 bombing of Avianca flight HK-1803, which killed 111 passengers. Colombian civilian investigators later linked the perpetrators of the attack to a group of paramilitaries based at Puerto Boyaca on the
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Seguridad Y Ciudadania En Los 90s En Medellin: El Surgimiento De Las Empresas Colombianas De Proteccion Violenta
Journal article by John J. Bedoya; Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 31, 2006
Subjects: Crimen organizado--Aspectos psicologicos, Crimen organizado--Aspectos sociales, Crimen organizado--Colombia, Crimenes contra la seguridad publica--Colombia, Desarrollo industrial--Colombia, Desarrollo industrial--Investigacion cientifica, Industria de sistemas de seguridad--Colombia, Industria de sistemas de seguridad--Crecimiento, Investigacion sociologica--Colombia, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia--Crimen, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia--Negocios e industria
...a partir del 86. (7) En el campo de la seguridad se comenzo a construir, a la par de otras regiones del pais como Puerto Boyaca, Monteria y Uraba (8), un modelo que desbordaba los marcos de derechos y de libertades, capitalizados por empresarios del...
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Uncovering the Bounty of Boyaca
Magazine article by Victor Englebert; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 59, September 2007
Subjects: Provinces--Description and travel, Travel--Colombia, Travel--Personal narratives
Uncovering the Bounty of Boyaca. by Victor Englebert ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED Trrential rains soak the Boyaca landscape, two hours north of Colombias...Fortunately, whatever direction you take in Boyaca, you can never be disappointed. I lose...
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The Corruption of Memory
Magazine article by Eduardo Galeano; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 27, 1993
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...the plains of Bogota; German companies send rose cuttings to Boyaca. After the flowers have bloomed on these immense plantations...Bogota are drying out and sinking; and the workers and lands of Boyaca are sick from the large-scale use of insecticides and chemical...
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Wars of Independence: South America
Magazine article by David Bushnell; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 62, March 2010
Subjects: Autonomy (Political science)--Economic aspects, Autonomy (Political science)--History, Autonomy (Political science)--Social aspects, Autonomy--Economic aspects, Autonomy--History, Autonomy--Social aspects, Latin American history--Economic aspects, Latin American history--Military aspects, Latin American history--Political aspects, War--Economic aspects, War--History, War--Political aspects, Wars--Economic aspects, Wars--History, Wars--Political aspects
...and on August 7, 1819 won a crucial victory in the battle of Boyaca. After that, resistance quickly collapsed in the central core...Santa Fe de Bogota, which Bolivar entered three days after Boyaca. It took three more years to expel the royalists from all outlying...
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The Liberator's Noble Match
Magazine article by Martha Gil-Montero; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 45, May-June 1993
Subjects: Bolivia--History, South American native peoples--History, de Sucre, Antonio Jose Francisco--Biography
...rivalry between Bolivar, the putative father, and Sucre, the loving protege. THE TRIUMPHANT SOLDIER After his triumph in Boyaca and the liberation of New Granada (now Colombia) in July 1819, Bolivar went to Angostura and formed the Republic of Great...
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South America's Emerging Energy Titan
Magazine article; Global Finance, Vol. 11, January 1997
Subjects: Colombia, Electric utilities, Emerging markets, Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos, Energy resources, Foreign investment, Growth industries, Natural gas utilities, Petroleum industry, Privatization
...facility in the province of Huila, while Chilgener, also of Chile, won the bid on the much larger 1,000-MW Chivor plant in Boyaca. Sales of several smaller units fizzled but will be re-bid. By early 1997 the government should have sold off as much as...
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Junto a Los Quechuas De Peru Y Los Aymaras En Bolivia, Los Chibchas De la Parte
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 6, 2008
...del siglo XVI ocuparon lo que son ahora los departamentos de Boyaca y Cundinamarca y posiblemente unas cuantas comunidades lejanas...sixteenth century they occupied what is now the departments of Boyaca and Cundinamarca with, possible, a few outlying settlements...
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Tourists Hurt in Wild West Shootout
Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), June 21, 2011
...world. The 11,000-carat raw green gem weighs in at 2.27 kilos and is on show 12 years after it was mined in Muzo, in Boyaca province. Cpounds sterlingIt is priceless,Cyen said Santiago Soto, spokesman for the Minergemas 2011 gem industry trade...
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Colombia Vote Big despite Terrorism
Newspaper article by John Otis; The Washington Times, October 28, 1997
Subjects: Colombia
...mayors were elected with a total of seven, eight and 11 votes. In another village, only one person voted, and in a town in Boyaca state, voters elected as mayor a candidate who had been killed by guerrillas a month earlier. A total of 153 municipalities...
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Recalling Bolivar's Unlikely Allies
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 1, 2010
...Who took notes, who wrote the dispatches in such fast-moving action in such primitive conditions? The famous battle of Boyaca, Bolivars turning point, is described with authority and a good grasp of its place in Bolivars strategy and of the up-and...
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Zip Up the Lip Philip
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 20, 1996
...Brilliant Star of Zanzibar (first class), Grand Cross Order of the Icelandic Falcon and Grand Cross Extraordinary of the Order of Boyaca of Colombia. And the Supreme Order of Chrysanthemum of Japan and the Order of Superior Sun of Afghanistan. You have more orders...
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encyclopedia articles on: BoyacA  - 6 results

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BoyacÁ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BOYACA boyaka , town, Boyaca dept., N central Colombia, near Tunja. At Boyaca on Aug. 7, 1819, revolutionary forces under Simon Bolivar won the decisive engagement that assured the independence of present-day Colombia and Venezuela from...
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Tunja
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TUNJA toon ha, city (1993 pop. 101,622), capital of Boyaca dept., central Colombia, on the Pan-American Highway...thereafter served as Simon Bolivar s staging point for the victory at Boyaca . The city retains many colonial buildings. It has a university...
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Colombia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...part in the uprising at Bogota on July 20, 1810. The revolution was to last nine years before the victory of Simon Bolivar at Boyaca (1819) secured the independence of Greater Colombia (Span., Gran Colombia ). The new state Bolivar created included what...
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BogotÁ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the city against Spain in 1810. Later Santander and Bolivar were prominent in Bogota. After Bolivars decisive victory at Boyaca (1819), Bogota became the capital of Greater Colombia; when the country was divided in 1830, Bogota became the capital...
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BolÍvar, SimÓn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he crossed the flooded Apure valley, climbed the bitterly cold Andean passes, and defeated the surprised Spanish forces at Boyaca (Aug. 7, 1819) in one of the great campaigns of military history. The same year, he was made president of Greater Colombia...
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