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Bolívar, Valle del Cauca

Municipality and town in Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia

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Location of the municipality and town of Bolívar, Valle del Cauca in the Valle del Cauca Department of Colombia.

4°20′19″N 76°11′5″W / 4.33861°N 76.18472°W / 4.33861; -76.18472Country

ColombiaDepartmentValle del Cauca DepartmentArea

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• Total602 km² (232 sq mi)Population

(Census 2018^[2])

• Total13,954 • Density23/km² (60/sq mi)Time zoneUTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)ClimateAm

Bolívar is a town and municipality located in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

Ricaurte, a village within the municipality of Bolívar, is home to the world's largest known cluster of people with fragile X syndrome. Around 5% of the village population carries the genetic mutation or premutation.^[3]

Notable people

Fanor Mondragón, Colombian chemist, professor and researcher^[4]

References

^ "Municipalities of Colombia". statoids. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
^ "Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018" (in Spanish). DANE. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
^ "Why is a remote Colombian town a hot spot of an inherited intellectual disability?". Science Magazine. 9 October 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
^ Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (2021). Ciencia, Humanismo y Acción. 85 Años Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (in Spanish). Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. ISBN 978-958-794-489-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)