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Painting of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá, made in 1660 by Baltasar Vargas de Figueroa.Colección de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá. [3] [4]Pursuant to a commission received from Antonio de Santana, who had received in 1560 an encomienda of the Indians of Suta, a Spanish painter named Alonso de Narváez painted a portrait of the Virgin of the Rosary on a homespun piece of cotton woven ...
The shrine is located in southern Colombia and has been a tourism and pilgrimage destination since the eighteenth century. The Spanish Franciscan Juan de Santa Gertrudis (1724–1799) mentions the sanctuary in Book III, Part 2, of his four-volume chronicle of his 1756–62 journey in the south portion of the Kingdom of New Granada (titled "Wonders of Nature").
El Día de las Velitas is celebrated throughout Colombia, but traditions vary in each region and city. In the municipality of Quimbaya , in Quindío Department the most important cultural event is the Candles and Lanterns Festival (full name in Spanish: Fiesta Nacional del Concurso de Alumbrados con Velas y Faroles ), which began in 1982 and is ...
Location of the municipality and town of La Belleza in the Santander Department of Colombia. ... La Belleza is a town and municipality [citation needed] ...
Colombia is one of seventeen megadiverse countries in the world. [7] The country in northwestern South America contains 311 types of coastal and continental ecosystems. [1] As of the beginning of 2021, a total of between 63,000 and 71,000 species are registered in the country, [8] [5] with 8803 endemic species, representing near the 14% of the total registered species. [6]
Bella Hadid is watching the Malibu home she grew up in burn to the ground amid the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires.. On Thursday, Jan. 9, the model, 28, shared photos of the home that once belonged ...
During her drug reign in Miami, some estimates claim she was bringing in 1,500 kilos of coke a month, worth up to a possible $80 million -- or an estimated $986 million a year (in today's money ...
Bello (Spanish pronunciation:, ) is a city and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia and a suburb of Medellín, the department capital.Bello is part of the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley in the department of Antioquia.