Maicao, Colombia

MAICAO, COLOMBIA - JANUARY 22, 2010: Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Jattab built in September 1997, is the second largest mosques in South America. Although, Colombia is predominantly a Roman Catholic country, the region around Maicao, has a large Lebanese migrant population who funded and built the mosque. According to some reports the local point of terrorism in South America was Maicao, described as an Islamic community of approximately 4,670 vacation spot for orthodox Islamics and the largest and best organized Islamic community in Colombia with a minority Shiites reportedly more closely associated with the Muslim fundamentalist concept. These reports said that there were cells of the radical group Hizballah and that it controlled up to 70 percent of the local commerce. Maicao is a city and municipality in the Department of La Guajira, northern Republic of Colombia. It is located 76 km from Riohacha, the capital of the department and is the second largest urban center near the border with Venezuela, after the city of Cucuta. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
MAICAO, COLOMBIA - JANUARY 22, 2010: Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Jattab built in September 1997, is the second largest mosques in South America. Although, Colombia is predominantly a Roman Catholic country, the region around Maicao, has a large Lebanese migrant population who funded and built the mosque. According to some reports the local point of terrorism in South America was Maicao, described as an Islamic community of approximately 4,670 vacation spot for orthodox Islamics and the largest and best organized Islamic community in Colombia with a minority Shiites reportedly more closely associated with the Muslim fundamentalist concept. These reports said that there were cells of the radical group Hizballah and that it controlled up to 70 percent of the local commerce. Maicao is a city and municipality in the Department of La Guajira, northern Republic of Colombia. It is located 76 km from Riohacha, the capital of the department and is the second largest urban center near the border with Venezuela, after the city of Cucuta. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
Maicao, Colombia
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