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Thank you! Its very a common mistake, they come from the very same name: Colón. Thats the sailor Columbus in your history books, they seemed to translate names in that age in europe, but where he was hired for his famous voyage, Spain, he was actually known as Cristóbal Colón. ;p

This article was our passive-agressive way to get western jouralists to notice the difference during the recent peace process.