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Columbia most often refers to: Columbia (personification), the historical personification of the United States Columbia University, a private university in New York City Columbia Pictures, an American film studio owned by Sony Pictures Columbia Sportswear, an American clothing company Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital of South Carolina Columbia, Missouri, the fourth-most populous ...

Columbia University is one of the world’s most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields.

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Location map of the pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia Owing to its location, the present territory of Colombia was a corridor of early human civilization from Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to the Andes and Amazon basin. The oldest archaeological finds are from the Pubenza and El Totumo sites in the Magdalena Valley 100 kilometers (62 mi) southwest of Bogotá. [43] These sites date from the ...