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Buenaventura is located in the department of Valle Del Cauca of Colombia in South America . Buenaventura is on the Pacific Ocean coast and it is the main Pacific port for Colombia. It is a city with a population of 300,000; 2005 estimate (most of city development lies on Cascajal Island ) and it is the size of Los Angeles ' metropolitan area; most of the city's land is rural with scattered small villages throughout. It is located a few miles from the western cordillera of the Andes mountain range and the major city of Cali , the department's capital. Founded about 1545 , the city was destroyed by Native Americans before 1600 . Later rebuilt, Buenaventura thrived after the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 . Today, the city is crucial for sending raw materials to nearby areas; this has brought prosperity and allowed recent new development to occur. |
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