Bucaramanga

[ boo-kah-rah-mahng-gah ]

noun

1. a city in N Colombia.

Bucaramanga

/ bukaraˈmanɡa /

noun

1. a city in N central Colombia, in the Cordillera Oriental: centre of a district growing coffee, tobacco, and cotton. Pop: 1 069 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Peaceful protests also took place in cities including Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla and Bucaramanga, according to police.

From Reuters

Born in 1935 in Ghent, Belgium, to a Belgian mother and a Colombian father, Nova spent her early childhood in Bucaramanga, the capital of the Santander region in northeastern Colombia.

From New York Times

She has co-ordinated the response to the migration in the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, which has received more than 40,000 Venezuelans in recent years.

From BBC

Petro’s rival, Hernández, the former mayor of Bucaramanga who had never held or run for a national office before, ran on a singular message of rooting out corruption.

From Washington Post

At the polls in Bucaramanga, many voters did not seem troubled by the accusation.

From New York Times