Geography Quiz for 13 November 2016
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Question 1: When Spanish commander de Heredia founded a city in 1533 on an indigenous village in a bay in the north-west of what is now Colombia what was the source of the name he gave to it?
A
B
The city of Carthage, Tunisia
The city of Medellín, Spain
C
Bacatá, the indigenous name for the area
D
"Barranca", the Spanish word for the nearby canyons