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San Jorge was a Mennonite colony founded in 2018 in the Meta Department in [[Colombia]]. The colony comprised a land area of 2,500 hectares. The colonists came primarily from [[Cuauhtémoc Mennonite Settlement (Chihuahua, Mexico)|Cuauhtémoc]] ([[Santa Clara Sommerfeld Mennonite Settlement (Chihuahua, Mexico)|Santa Clara]] ([[Mexico]]), Tampico (Mexico), Manzanillas (Mexico), Las Flores (Mexico)) and from the Tamaulipas and the Campeche states (Mexico).

= Bibliography =
Le Polain de Waroux, Yann, Janice Neumann, Anna O’Driscoll and Kerstin Schreiber. “Pious pioneers: the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America.” ''Journal of Land Use Science'' 16, no. 1 (2021):  1-17.

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