A children's library in this city is named after the author of Tambores en la Noche, the black poet Jorge Artel.
A children's library in this city is named after the author of Tambores en la Noche, the black poet Jorge Artel. Centenary Park, built to commemorate a century of independence, can be found in this city's Getsemani Neighborhood. At the end of the Dique Canal in this city, ethnologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff discovered settlements belonging to the Monsu culture, which created artificial mounds that apparently were communal huts. This city features a monument to a woman named "India Catalina," who worked as the interpreter for Pedro de Heredia. In this city's Santo Domingo Square there can be found the sculpture Mujer Reclinada by Fernando Botero, and it is served by an airport named after a leader of the La Regeneracion movement, Rafael Nunez. This city was assaulted by the French and their buccaneer allies in a bloody 1697 incident during the War of the Grand Alliance, and later, a huge British force under ► Admiral Vernon failed to take this city during the War of Jenkin's Ear. Named after a port in Murcia, for 10 points, identify this port city of Colombia which gives its name to an 1812 manifesto written by Simon Bolivar.
A children's library in this city is named after the author of Tambores en la Noche, the black poet Jorge Artel.
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