CARTAGO, an inland town of Costa-Rica, Central America, on a river of the same name, 60 miles from the Gulf of Nicoya. The town suffered severely from an earthquake in 1841, and has since then decreasedin commercial importance, while the population has been reduced from about 9000 to 3000 inhabitants. The volcano Cartago, near the town, is 11,480 feet high.

CARTAGO, an inland city of the state of Cauca, in the United States of Colombia, South America, 130 miles north-west of Bogota, and situated on the Viega, an affluent of the Cauca. The inhabitants, numbering about 8000, carry on a considerable trade in homed cattle, fraits, coffee, cocoa, and tobacco. The climate is dry and salubrious, and the surrounding country well cultivated.