Curiti
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Curiti is a town and municipality in the Santander Department
in northeastern Colombia
. The area is famous for crafts made from fique, or agave sisal.
Curiti is the birth place of Alejandro Galvis Galvis
, a renowned politician and publisher.
Santander Department
Santander is a department of Colombia. Santander inherited the name of one of the nine original states of the United States of Colombia. It is located in the central northern part of the country, east of the Magdalena River, bordered to the south and southeast by Boyacá, to the northeast by Norte...
in northeastern Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
. The area is famous for crafts made from fique, or agave sisal.
Curiti is the birth place of Alejandro Galvis Galvis
Alejandro Galvis Galvis
Alejandro Galvis Galvis was a Colombian publisher and politician.He graduated the law school of the Universidad Republicana de Bogotá. From 1914 on he worked as journalist for the newspapers Juventud Liberal and El Progreso...
, a renowned politician and publisher.