Cart a gena

capital of the State of Bolivar, Republic of Colombia. The streets are narrow, with high houses, but the place is well built. and po e es a university, a handsome cathedral, ply several churches, Pop. about 20,-,, Cart a gena, or Carthagena, a fortified town and seaport of Spain, with a harbor which is one of the larex and safest in the Mediterranean. op. 84,171. ee, (1) a river and almost landlocked bay or lagoon, communi with the Caribbean Sea, near the N. extremity of the — Coast. @) A town of Costa Rica, 12 miles E. of the present capital, San Jose, on a plain to the S. of the constantly —— voleano of Irazu (11,500 feet). Founded in 1522, the place had 23,000 inhabitants in 1823, and was capital of the State till 1841, when it was all but destroyed by an earthquake. {3) A town of Cauca, in Colombia, founded in 1540, on the Rio Viejo, three miles above its junction with the Cauca, and producing cocoa, tobacco, and coffee.