Bolívar, Valle Del Cauca
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.
Notable people
- Fanor Mondragón, Colombian chemist, professor and researcher
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.
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