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in Barranquilla, Cartagena, Bogota, Santa 
Marta, Rio Hacha, Medellin and Bucara- 
manga. The larger business houses are lo 
cated at these points and have branches in the 
smaller cities, to which goods are shipped, and 
with which they are in close contact. 
Colombia may be reached directly from the 
United States by the United Fruit Company’s 
ships which stop at all ports on the Caribbean 
Sea, or one may go direct to Colon and there 
transship to some vessel, of which there are 
many plying along the coast. 
Buenaventura and Tumaco are the largest 
ports on the Pacific coast and are in weekly 
connection with Panama through the medium 
of small steamers.