GeoByte2:Colombia is one of the world's leading producers of coffee.
GeoByte3:Most of the world's emeralds come from Colombia.
GeoByte4:Colombia is the only South American country with both an Atlantic and a Pacific coast.
GeoByte5:Under Spanish rule, Colombia was part of New Granada, which also included the present-day countries of Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama.
GeoByte6:Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez (1929- ) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. His most famous novel is ^One Hundred Years of Solitude^.