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Pereira

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Pereira (pārā`rä), city (1993 pop. 348,023), capital of Risaralda dept., W central Colombia, in the upper Cauca valley. It is a major distribution center for coffee and cattle and has a small textile industry.

Pereira

City (pop., 1999 est.: 381,725), west-central Colombia. It is in the western foothills of the Cordillera Central of the Andes Mountains above the Cauca River valley. Founded in 1863 on the former site of Cartago, it is a centre for coffee production and cattle raising and has some light manufacturing.

Pereira
a town in W central Colombia: cattle trading and coffee processing. Pop.: 656 000 (2005 est.)
Pereira 

a city in western Colombia, in the Cauca Valley. Capital of the Risaralda Department. Population, 212,000 (1972). A railroad and highway junction, Pereira is the market center of a region that produces coffee and livestock products. It has textile, food-processing, and leather-goods enterprises.
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I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by an account of our luxurious voyage upon the Booth liner, nor will I tell of our week's stay at Para (save that I should wish to acknowledge the great kindness of the Pereira da Pinta Company in helping us to get together our equipment).
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