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Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano
Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano (Professional Colombian Basketball), currently known as the Liga WPlay de Baloncesto for sponsorship reasons, is the premier professional basketball championship in Colombia. The championship was established in 1992 and is organized by the Federación Colombiana de Baloncesto (in English: Colombian Basketball Federation). The first national semi-professional championship was called Copa Sprite, sponsored by the eponymous soda trademark. This led the participating clubs to the creation of the División Mayor del Baloncesto Colombiano. This way the first championship was created, called Copa Sprite Profesional. In this version the following teams participated: Bogotá-Doria Promasa, Valle-Sensus 2, Antioquia-Sprite, Santander-Terpel, Barranquilla-Junior y Caldas-Ron Viejo de Caldas. League format The championship consists of three rounds: * Round Robin: The teams play 24 games each. The four top teams in the end reach the playoffs. * The play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Toros Del Valle
Toros del Valle (literally in English: Bulls of the Valley) is a Colombian professional basketball club based in Cali, Valle del Cauca Department. The team was founded in 2010 as Fastbreak del Valle and made their debut in the Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano in the same year. Toros play their home games in the , which has capacity for 3,400 people. History After being established as Fastbreak del Valle in 2010, the team played in the Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano's Invitational Cup. Fastbreak finished in the 6th place with a 11–17 record. Following this season, the club did not play in any professional competition for seven years, until its return 2017. Valle del Cauca was however represented by Indervalle, in 2011, and Astros Blanco, in 2015. In their return season in 2017, they finished first in the regular season of the Colombian League, and reached their first play-off finals. In the 2018 season, Fastbreak played in the Liga Sudamericana de Baloncesto, the second-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Barranquilla
Barranquilla () is the capital district of the Atlántico department in Colombia. It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port in the Caribbean region of Colombia, Caribbean coast region; as of 2018, it had a population of 1,206,319 making it List of cities in Colombia by population, Colombia's fourth-most populous city after Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. Barranquilla lies strategically next to the delta of the Magdalena River, (originally before rapid urban growth) from its mouth at the Caribbean Sea, serving as a port for river and maritime transportation within Colombia. It is also the main economic center of the Atlántico (Colombia), Atlántico department in Colombia. The city is the core of the Metropolitan Area of Barranquilla, Barranquilla metropolitan area, with a population of over 2 million, which also includes the municipalities of Soledad, Atlántico, Soledad, Galapa, Atlántico, Galapa, Malambo, Atlántico, Malambo, and Puerto Colomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the List of largest cities, largest cities in the world. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not politically part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca. Bogotá is a territorial entity of the first order, with the same administrative status as the departments of Colombia. It is the main political, economic, administrative, industrial, cultural, aeronautical, technological, scientific, medical and educational center of the country and northern South America. Bogotá was founded as the capital of the New Kingdom of Granada on 6 August 1538 by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada after a harsh Spanish conquest of the Muisca, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Piratas De Bogotá
''Piratas'' () is a Spanish adventure drama television series with comedy elements created by Carlos Portela and which stars Óscar Jaenada, Pilar Rubio and Silvia Abascal. It aired on Telecinco in 2011. Premise Set in the 18th century, the fiction follows the exploits of Álvaro Mondego (Óscar Jaenada), a member of the nobility who ends up captured by a pirate crew led by Captain Bocanegra (Aitor Mazo) and his daughter Carmen ( Pilar Rubio). Cast * Óscar Jaenada as Álvaro Mondego. * Pilar Rubio as Carmen Bocanegra. * Silvia Abascal as Blanca Díaz de Andrade, Marquise of Toro. * as Esteban Yáñez de Oliveira. * as Captain Bocanegra. * as Victoria Falcón. * Luis Zahera as Puñales. * Áxel Fernández as Antón Velasco. * as Rodrigo Malvar. * Babou Cham as Aymán Kadar. * as Fosco. * as Intendant Gaspar Falcón. * as Doña Beatriz Jiménez de Vicuña. Production and release Created by Carlos Portela, ''Piratas'' was produced by Telecinco in collaboration with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cúcuta
Cúcuta (), officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian municipality, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and nucleus of the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta. The city is located in the homonymous valley, at the foot of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, on the border with Venezuela. It comprises an area of approximately 1119 km2, with an urban area of 64 km2 (divided into 10 communes) and a rural area of 1055 km2 (divided into 10 townships). The city has a population of 777,106 inhabitants, which makes it the most populous municipality in the department and the sixth most populous municipality in the country. Similarly, its metropolitan area (made up of the municipalities of Villa del Rosario, Los Patios, El Zulia, San Cayetano and Puerto Santander) has an approximate population of 1,046,347. The city was founded as a parish on June 17, 1733, by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar, resident of Pamplona in the area under the name of ''San José de Guasimales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cartagena De Indias
Cartagena ( ), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena's past role as a link in the route to the West Indies provides it with important historical value for world exploration and preservation of heritage from the great commercial maritime routes. As a former Spanish colony, it was a key port for the export of Bolivian silver to Spain and for the Slavery in Cartagena, import of enslaved Africans under the asiento system. It was defensible against Piracy in the Caribbean, pirate attacks in the Caribbean. The city's strategic location between the Magdalena River, Magdalena and Sinú River, Sinú rivers also gave it easy access to the interior of New Kingdom of Granada, New Granada and made it a main port for trade between Spain and its overseas empire, establishing its importance by the early 1540s. Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
