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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 07, 2017 09:04 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Chivor (#353) |
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Beryl crystal has a saturated color.
Excess of vanadium over chromium?
Or just a high concentration of these 2 trace elements?
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Dolomite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 09, 2017 06:41 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Marcasite (#8900) |
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Marcasite from Cantabria.
Mineral: | Marcasite, Dolomite |
Locality: | Reocín Mine, Reocín, Comarca Saja-Nansa, Cantabria, Spain | |
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 10, 2017 13:53 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Peñas Blancas (#482) |
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Large quartz crystals and creamy calcite on a coarse-grained black shale matrix.
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Quartz |
Locality: | Peñas Blancas Mine, Municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Quartz |
Locality: | Peñas Blancas Mine, Municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 11, 2017 11:24 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Gachalá (#530) |
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Emeralds are often found in kaolinitic rocks in the Gachalá area.
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite) |
Locality: | Gachalá mining district, Municipio Gachalá, Eastern Emerald Belt, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia | |
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Dimensions: | 86x49x11mm, xls=14 & 12mm |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite) |
Locality: | Gachalá mining district, Municipio Gachalá, Eastern Emerald Belt, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia | |
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Dimensions: | 86x49x11mm, xls=14 & 12mm |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite) |
Locality: | Gachalá mining district, Municipio Gachalá, Eastern Emerald Belt, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia | |
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Dimensions: | 86x49x11mm, xls=14 & 12mm |
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 21, 2017 15:48 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Chivor (#648) |
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Host rock is black shale.
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Dimensions: | 24x26x12mm, largest xl=14mm |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 24, 2017 08:09 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Chivor (#518) |
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Chivor at its best.
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Dimensions: | 18x25x12mm, xls=4 & 3mm |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Calcite, Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Philippe Durand
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Posted: Mar 24, 2017 12:35 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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great combination
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 24, 2017 12:47 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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Philippe Durand wrote: | great combination |
Thanks for your appreciation Philippe!
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 28, 2017 07:36 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Chivor (#490) |
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Several crystals have carbonaceous inclusions, mostly on the edge and at the base of the cluster.
Also many crystals exhibit geometrical patterns in the form of striations on either the c-axis termination or the faces (Combination of growth patterns and contacts).
Presence of limonite.
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald) |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald) |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald) |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald) |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald) |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Mar 31, 2017 12:15 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - La Pita (#649) |
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Grey calcite.
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Dolomite |
Locality: | La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Dimensions: | 37x24x31mm, xl=24mm |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Dolomite |
Locality: | La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Dolomite |
Locality: | La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Dolomite |
Locality: | La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Apr 13, 2017 14:30 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Coscuez (#632) |
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It's springtime in this part of the world so let's celebrate with a flowerlike cluster.
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite |
Locality: | Coscuez mining district, Municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite |
Locality: | Coscuez mining district, Municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Apr 20, 2017 15:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Muzo (#229) |
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Intergrown crystals.
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Dolomite |
Locality: | Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Dimensions: | 79x49x66mm, largest xl=13x9mm |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Dolomite |
Locality: | Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Calcite, Dolomite |
Locality: | Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Firmo Espinar
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Location: Medellín, Colombia.
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Posted: Apr 20, 2017 23:25 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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Hi Mr. Gérard.
Really stunning and great green collection.
Thank you for share.
Congratulations.
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Apr 21, 2017 03:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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franjungle wrote: | Hi Mr. Gérard.
Really stunning and great green collection.
Thank you for share.
Congratulations. |
Hola Señor franjungle
Thank you for your kind comments!
You live in a city which still has an unfair reputation for being violent due to the drug cartels.
But this is now history and Medellín is certainly one of the most innovative cities in South America.
The city of the "eternal green" can only be an attractive place :-)
Gérard
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Firmo Espinar
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Posted: Apr 23, 2017 17:24 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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Hi Gérard.
Thank you for your words in name of the paisas.
Yes, Medellín takes a while that is a city that advances and grows. With four million inhabitants of its metropolitan area it´s already a great city.
It is the only one city of Colombia that tube has. And also there are many cable-ways to neighborhoods that continue raising in the hills.
The people tell me a few amazing histories about 30 years ago. To many zones of the city you could not enter... The drug cartels had this city forcibly taken and the region was a territory of the narco-guerrilla. The life of a policeman you upset value USD 500. Life was hard. Lucky it all happened.
Nowadays many tourists come to the city. Usually they come because the growth of the city, the sun and the paisa party is a magnet for all people, tourists and workers.
Without the ultra-violent mafias, with the new growth, the good weather, the landscapes and the happiness of the “paisa people”, we have the perfect cocktail.
And the great sorrow is the emeralds remained in Boyacá and here only they left the gold us. But in this life is not possible to get everything.
We wait you in the the eternal spring city.
Your fine Fiebre Verde collection is the best ambassador of Colombia. It´s more than excellent.
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Apr 24, 2017 09:30 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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franjungle wrote: | Hi Gérard.
Thank you for your words in name of the paisas.
Yes, Medellín takes a while that is a city that advances and grows. With four million inhabitants of its metropolitan area it´s already a great city.
It is the only one city of Colombia that tube has. And also there are many cable-ways to neighborhoods that continue raising in the hills.
The people tell me a few amazing histories about 30 years ago. To many zones of the city you could not enter... The drug cartels had this city forcibly taken and the region was a territory of the narco-guerrilla. The life of a policeman you upset value USD 500. Life was hard. Lucky it all happened.
Nowadays many tourists come to the city. Usually they come because the growth of the city, the sun and the paisa party is a magnet for all people, tourists and workers.
Without the ultra-violent mafias, with the new growth, the good weather, the landscapes and the happiness of the “paisa people”, we have the perfect cocktail.
And the great sorrow is the emeralds remained in Boyacá and here only they left the gold us. But in this life is not possible to get everything.
We wait you in the the eternal spring city.
Your fine Fiebre Verde collection is the best ambassador of Colombia. It´s more than excellent. |
Hello Franjungle,
Thank you for your kind words and also for your invitation to visit Medellín where I have been only once a couple of years ago.
It's true that I keep promoting Colombia to my friends, not for its gold or emeralds, but rather for its incredible variety of landscapes, climates, and cultures.
Tourists are flocking to Colombia more than ever as it is still considered by many as an off the beaten track country.
I haven't seen "real" tourists around the mining areas yet but several Bogotá-based tour operators are now offering day trips to the Boyacá mines. Sadly, this will only fuel the already flourishing market for glued specimens.
Gérard
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Firmo Espinar
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Posted: Apr 25, 2017 22:28 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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“but rather for its incredible variety of landscapes, climates, and cultures”. I fully agree with you on this.
From the deserts of The Guajira or the Tatacoah, to the Amazon tropical forest that covers several regions of the country. High mountain climates near to Caribbean beaches. Swampy impenetrable jungles like a thick wall in The Chocó or The Stopper of The Darién (in the border with Panama), and arid flat extensions in the sheets of the Orinoquía close to more than five thousand meters snowed permanently mountains. And in the middle the spring of Medellín.
Like the emeralds is especially green. The whole country is always green except five small zones.
Care with the glue.
But please continue with the parade of colombian beauties.
Firmo.
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Apr 26, 2017 06:37 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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franjungle wrote: |
But please continue with the parade of colombian beauties.
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I promise I will Firmo. The Paris emerald mine is not exhausted yet :-)
Gérard
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Firmo Espinar
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Posted: Apr 26, 2017 20:05 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde |
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Hi.
I think we should study the genesis of this Parisian deposit.
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Fiebre Verde
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Posted: Apr 28, 2017 16:27 Post subject: Re: Collection of Fiebre Verde - Chivor (#621) |
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From a new find in the Parisian basin, the yet to be known Paris deposit.
Mother nature was not the only force working on this specimen. Was a hard job for me too.
There is subtle cat's eye effect which can be sensed in the upper part of the crystal – have to work out the lighting.
Needless to say that host rock is the infamous Parisian black shale.
PS: There was another good discussion recently on how important is the background in mineral photography.
Indeed, you can work out the background with your favorite plug-in after shooting but no matter how good you are at creating the most appropriate background, it might already be too late.
The first 2 images illustrate the importance of the background color when shooting - Lighting conditions are identical.
But this is luxury as it does not only require various background materials to play with but also... time!
Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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Mineral: | Beryl (variety emerald), Albite (variety cleavelandite), Pyrite |
Locality: | Chivor mining district, Palo Arañado Mine, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department, Colombia | |
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