Bucaramanga

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= Location and Terrain = === Bucaramanga, the place of my mother's birth, is located in South America, Colombia at 4 00N and 72 00W. This city is just slightly north of the equator, 497.897 miles away! The rural/ urban area is situated on a plateau in the Cordillera Oriental, the eastern range of the Colombian Andes mountains, and near the Rio de Oro canyon, meaning "river of gold", which rises 600m high on the West. On the east, the Andes mountain range rises almost 3,700m! Colombian land consist of flat coastal lowlands,central highlands, the Andes Mountains, and eastern lowland plains. === = heritage = =Part of being proud of your country is knowing its background. The food is esquisita! We have bocadillos, which are presssed, hard sugar fruit cubes. Cresent shaped corn dough folded and stuffed with chicken, herbs and spices are called empanadas. Platanos are dried salted plantain banana chips. One of my favorites is the toasted ant thoraxes gathered in Spring.They are very expensive, since they take a long difucult time to cultivate! Sometimes large army ants are used for surgical sutures! The ants mandibles seal the pressed skin together, and the body is cut off leaving a sealed wound! Colombia grows coffee beans, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables, and also makes leather products, jewlery,clothing, collects shrimp, cuts flowers and wood products. Petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, nickel, gold, copper, and emeralds are mined. As you can see, there are numerous job opporitunities for the population of 44,205,293! Weather is important for agricultural reasons, because the warm climate helps the plants grow in this certain area. Local manufacturing, like textiles and shoes, have struggled in recent decades due to legal import laws. Festivals are the best! Each year, the most important annual fair takes place in Bucaramanga for one week in September. 350,000 people visit. The fair traditionally opens with the cabalgata, the horse parade of 2,000 horses! Extreme sports, such as car racing and parashooting, and racing marathons fill the air with excitment along with local art, tango,salsa, regaton,and vallenato music, theater, orchid and farming exhibitions, antique car shows, traditional dancing, beauty pagents, famous musicians and singers! The dress up carnival consists of elaborate floats with fun games and shows! The fair ends with the corrida de torros (bull fighting) which wraps up the fun until next year! Bucaramanga Corporacion Deportiva is a Colombian foot ball( A.K.A soccer )club. The club was founded in 1949, and ever since then they have played their home games at the Alfonso Lopez stadium.=





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Animals

=Many animals live in Colombia, all equally exotic. Below are some facts on each animal:=

coati fun facts: ==~ The coati resembles a racoon with slender heads, upturned noses, small ears, and long tails that asist the coati to balance and signal. They measure 33 to 69 cm (13 to 27 in.) head to tail. Their white ringged tails can be as long as their body! The fur color ranges from light brown to black.==

~ Coatis eat fruit, lizards, rodents, small birds, bird and crocodile eggs, and other small vertebrates [[image:138510750_9e62cabf51.jpg width="400" height="261"]]
capybara fun facts ~ Largest rodent in the world!!! ~ These creatures have barrel shaped bodies, short heads, slightly webbed feet, no tail and 20 teeth ~ The fur is reddish-brown, while the uppper part of the capybaras body turns yellowish brown

~ live 4-8 years in the wild
=﻿~ Some predators who like to feast on capybaras are the jaguar, puma, ocelot, eagle, caiman, and anaconda=

~ Found wild in South America :


weather,climate,and seasons, and landmark's affect

Minimum || Daily Maximum ||^  ||^   ||
 * Month |||| mean tempurature || Mean Total Precipitation (mm) || Mean Number of Precipitation Days ||
 * ^  || Daily
 * Jan || ** 65.1 ** || ** 77.2 ** || ** 58 ** || **8** ||
 * Feb || ** 65.7 ** || ** 77.4 ** || ** 80 ** || **10** ||
 * Mar || ** 66.0 ** || ** 77.4 ** || ** 121 ** || **14** ||
 * Apr || ** 66.0 ** || ** 77.4 ** || ** 136 ** || **17** ||
 * May || ** 65.7 ** || ** 77.7 ** || ** 112 ** || **18** ||
 * Jun || ** 47.7 ** || ** 77.7 ** || ** 82 ** || **17** ||
 * Jul || ** 65.1 ** || ** 78.1 ** || ** 88 ** || **18** ||
 * Aug || ** 65.1 ** || ** 78.4 ** || ** 84 ** || **19** ||
 * Sep || ** 64.8 ** || ** 78.3 ** || ** 100 ** || **18** ||
 * Oct || ** 64.8 ** || ** 77.2 ** || ** 144 ** || **19** ||
 * Nov || ** 64.9 ** || ** 76.3 ** || ** 117 ** || **14** ||
 * Dec || ** 64.9 ** || ** 76.6 ** || ** 54 ** || **9** ||

Hours sun in Bucaramanga

 * ~ Jan || 216,4 ||
 * ~ Feb || 163,1 ||
 * ~ Mar || 149,1 ||
 * ~ Apr || 132,7 ||
 * ~ May || 152,1 ||
 * ~ Jun || 142,6 ||
 * ~ Jul || 172,2 ||
 * ~ Aug || 155,7 ||
 * ~ Sep || 153,7 ||
 * ~ Oct || 145,4 ||
 * ~ Nov || 148,1 ||
 * ~ Dec || 188,6 ||

==Bucaramanga's days are all almost the same length. Why? When the earth rovolves around the sun, the sun's rays shine most directly near the equator all year around, causing little change in the year round tempurature and daylight hours. Their year round climate resemble our Spring and Summer due to being near the equator as well! Seasons in the northern and southern hemisphere start and end at the same time. The only difference is that each hemishere is having opisite seasons. For example, if the northern hemishere is having winter, the southern hemishere is havivg summer! Since Bucaramanga is slightly north of the equator, its seasons start and end the same time period as the U.S. Since the city is located on a Plateau, the city has higher elevation. This makes the tempurature a bit colder then on flat land. You can look at the chart above to see the the monthly average high and low temperatures, as well as the average montly rainfall ( 1 inch is about 25mm) and the number of days a month which have precipitation, along with the adverage daylight hours per month. Bucaramanga's climate consist of a wet and dry season, clasifying it under "tropical monsoon climate." This is due to seasonal change in the wind direction, and because of the difference in the way the water and land heat. The town may experience land slides during the rainy seasons time period, because of the constant rain pelting the earth until it is worn down and slips. Here's an amazing fact: Bucaramanga's daytime temperatures are cooler then the night temperatures of surounding areas! The cold wind coming from the eastern peaks, Andes mountains, blow during the day. At night, the warm air blows from the Oro canyon rises.==

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