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Manizales

a city in W Colombia, in the Cordillera Central of the Andes at an altitude of 2100 m (7000 ft.): commercial centre of a rich coffee-growing area. Pop.: 401 000 (2005 est.)
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Manizales

 

a city in Colombia, the administrative center of Caldas Department. Population, 288,000 (1971). Located in the Cauca River valley at an elevation of 2,100 m. Manizales is linked by railroad with the port of Buenaventura on the Pacific. Coffee is traded; food (primarily coffee processing), textile, leather and shoe, and other industries are there. Manizales has a university.

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Manizales is a mid-sized city in the west-central region of Colombia(2,150 m.a.s.l., 404,000 inhabitants), it is characterized by steep topography that has governed urban development patterns, leading to scattered concentration of the population and a discontinuous network of urban infrastructure for connectivity, public spaces, and other urban amenities and services.
Ademas, este desarrollo en la planta fisica de la Universidad de Manizales, no solo es de gran importancia para la Universidad misma, sino tambien para la ciudad de Manizales que ve asi reforzado su caracter de ciudad universitaria.
Por las razones ya expuestas, se propuso determinar la condicion fisica funcional de los adultos mayores que asisten a los Centros Dia y a los Centros de Promocion y Proteccion al adulto mayor de Manizales, a partir del analisis de las variables sociodemograficas, antropometricas, y de las variables propias de la bateria del SFT, pues se considero importante su desarrollo debido a que no se cuenta con estudios que muestren las caracteristicas de la condicion fisica en la poblacion mayor de 60 anos, que asiste a este tipo de centros y que a su vez puedan ser comparados.
En el Eje Cafetero, y mas concretamente en la ciudad de Manizales, se ha visto un crecimiento importante de los call center, caracterizados por la flexibilizacion del trabajo y el manejo de las tecnologias de informacion y comunicacion (TIC).
At least 11 people were killed and 20 are missing after a landslide hit several neighborhoods in Manizales, Colombia, the government said on Wednesday, the second deadly landslide in the country this month.
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