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Map of Colombia

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Food• Arepas – cornmeal pancakes• Patacones – fried plantains

• Sancocho de Gallina – chicken soup• Dulce de leche – pudding• Empanadas – small pastries• Ajiaco – soup made by chicken• Techona – a roasted suckling pig filled with rice• Pigeon soup• Cooked guinea pig• Big fried ants

Climate

• 83% of the country is 75⁰F• 9% of the country is 64⁰F• 6% of the country is 53⁰F• Snowy

Celebrations

• New Year's Eve

• Carnival• Carnaval de Blanco y Negros (Festival of whites

and blacks) • Medellin’s Feria de las Flores y Desfile de

Silleteros (Flower Fair and parade of the flower Vendors)

Fun Facts

• Colombia produces some of the world’s best coffee

• The colors of the flag have meanings: yellow means gold, blue means the sea, and red means blood

• 75% of the people live in the city • Some schools are so crowded that the classrooms

work in shifts• The most dangerous animal is the poison dart frog