The Kola Román is a Colombian

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that was invented in the city of

Cartagena, Colombia 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 Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena's past role as a link in the route ...

in 1865 by Don Carlos Román. At first it was similar to a champagne soda, but was reinvented in the early 1900s by Don Henrique Pio Román. Kola Román is bottled and manufactured by Panamco FEMSA Colombia as related in its bottle. Kola Román is historically preferred in the Colombia's Caribbean region and it is one of the oldest sodas in the world. Kola Román has sponsored several baseball team in the Colombian Professional Baseball League. The first Kola Román team, based in Cartagena, won a championship in the 1956–57 season. In the 1990s, Kola Román sponsored the original Vaqueros de Montería.

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