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The Cartagena Convention is not the only Multilateral Environmental Agreement applicable in the region. Other applicable agreements include the Convention on Biological Diversity, MARPOL 73/78, the Basel Convention and others. However, its regional area of application makes it an important complement to other agreements.
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The city of Cartagena, on Spain's Levant coast, is close to the better known visitor destinations of Alicante and Murcia. Although small, Cartagena is an interesting, working port set in a deep bay with a natural harbour, sheltered by promontories. It is unspoiled by time and commercialism yet manages to successfully maintain a business-like air, encouraging new industries to keep the harbour busy. The surrounding area of Cartagena is Spain at its most delightful: the Huertas rise majestically above lush, green orange groves fed by an ancient network of canals.
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Cartagena has served as Artist-in-Residence at ZEUM, Southern Exposure, and SF Art Commission's WritersCorps. He has given numerous workshops, including two Family Sundays and the Matches Program at SFMOMA, and has presented his collaboration with Log Cabin youth at the CO-LAB exhibit at SF State University's Fine Art Gallery in spring of 2002. He teaches Printmaking, Mixed Media and Photography at Arrowsmith Academy and the work of his students has been exhibited at SFMOMA's window galleries and Horizons Unlimited. He ... teaches printmaking at Berkeley's New Age Academy. Cartagena has served on the roster of Leap, Imagination in Learning and Young Audiences of the Bay Area. Cartagena's work is in numerous private and institutional collections, including the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, The Oxbow School of Art, Napa, CA & the Collection of Egnatia Odos in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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After exiting Boca Chica, the well-buoyed main ship channel of Cartagena, you turn southward instead of the usual west-northwest rhumb line. The first stop is the Rosario Islands, where many cruisers are frequently holed up in the protected south anchorage for weeks at a time at this time of year. They are waiting for the winds and seas to drop in order to proceed directly to the eastern Hollandes Cays or Porvenir in the popular western San Blas triangle. But on your alternative route, no problema, for you will be daysailing your way down the Colombian coast - away from those nasty northwest gales and steep seas.
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Cartagena de Indias was founded in 1533 as the second Spanish city in Colombia. Owing to it's natural harbor, the city became one of the most important port cities for the Spanish colonies in South America. After it's hay days in the 18th Century, the fortified Colonial center was somewhat forgotten until the 1960s when the citizens decided to renovate the city. Nowadays, the walled-in city (ciudad amurallada) is a magnificent and very romantic example of Spanish Colonial architecture. Cartagena de Indias is a UNESCO World Heritage site. For more information, please, visit Cartagena-Info.
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Cartagena's work has been reviewed in Artweek, Art Issues, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, The San Jose Mercury News, The Oakland Tribune, Cambio and El Latino, Hoy (L.A.), among others. Nationally, Cartagena has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Honolulu, and all over California, including Los Angeles. Internationally, Cartagena has exhibited in Mexico, Japan, El Salvador, Belarus, Ecuador and Greece.
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