IBAGUE, or SAN BONIFACIO DE IBAGUE, a city of Colombia and capital of the department of Tolima, about 6om. W. of Bogota and 18m. N.W. of the Nevado de Tolima. Pop. (1900) est. 13,000, Ibague is built on a beautiful plain between the Chipalo and Combeima, small affluents of the Cuello, a western tributary of the Magdalena. Its elevation, 4,3oof t. above the sea, gives it a mild, subtropical climate. The plain and the neighbouring valleys produce cacao, tobacco, rice and sugar cane. It is an important commercial centre, being on the road which crosses the Quindio pass, or paramo, into the Cauca valley. Ibague was founded in 155o and was the capital of the republic for a short time in