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n. - An inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Colombia.

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  • Popoyan and Purace national park themselves were fairly insignificant.
  • Venezuela, and finally by the Cordilleras of New Grenada, along a distance of three hundred and eighty leagues, we find no active volcano before we arrive at Purace,...
  • Then the wine and the lemonade were delightfully cooled by ice; an ample supply of snow being constantly brought down from the mountain of Purace, distant little more...
  • Purace, widens considerably towards the west, and joins the western chain, which we have called the chain of Choco, because the platiniferous land of that province lies...
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