Meaning & History
Palombia (or the Palombian Republic) is a fictional country where some of the adventures of Spirou and Fantasio and the marsupilami take place. It is a small republic located (according to the map displayed on the marsupilami cage at the zoo, in Spirou and the Heirs) in a region between Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. It also adjoins the tiny fictional Republic of Guaracha. Its name is a corruption of Colombie and Polombe, the French words for Colombia and Pigeon respectively.