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Colonia

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Colonia 

(Colonia del Sacramento), a city and port in Uruguay, on the bank of the Río de la Plata. Administrative center of Colonia Department. Population, 12,800 (1963). The city has textile, leather, and meat-processing enterprises.



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I at first attributed this to some change in the nature of the soil, but the inhabitants assured me that here, as well as in Banda Oriental, where there is as great a difference between the country round Monte Video and the thinly-inhabited savannahs of Colonia, the whole was to be attributed to the manuring and grazing of the cattle.
 
 
 
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