Print of steel engraving titled „Volcans d‘ Air de Turbaco Colombie“.

Author unknown.

Engraved by Shelton.

Published in „L‘Univers Pittoresque ou Histoire et description de tous les peuples“ . Paris. 1835 – 1841.

Turbaco is a municipality in the Bolívar Department of Colombia. It is about 20 minutes from Cartagena de Indias and is one of Bolívar's most organized municipalities. Turbaco is known for its famous "Fiesta de Toros" in December to celebrate the new year. Currently the municipality is undergoing major expansion plans, remodeling, and much more.

Colombia officially the Republic of Colombia is a country situated in the northwest of South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments.

Approx. image size 12, 3 x 8, 2/22 x 13, 6 cm. Condition: good.