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Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias by Juan de Castellanos is an epic poem written in the late sixteenth century.It gives a detailed account of the colonization of the Caribbean and the territories in present-day Colombia and Venezuela. It describes the settlement companies and founding of cities as well as vivid depictions of indigenous cultures and natural history making this text an important chronicle of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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