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Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni , is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
The surname is a popular last name in Colombia, especially its Paisa region.According to the book "Genealogies of Antioquia and Caldas" by Gabriel Arango Mejía, the first Spaniard to bring the name to Colombia was a man named Don Juan Mejía de Tobar Montoya.
[10] [11] However, after Spanish conquest, the population of Colombia was lowered to only 750 thousand people, in which native peoples made up 80% of the population at 600 thousand people. [12] This would lower after independence when the population grew to 1.327 million in which natives made up 53% of the population at 700 thousand people. [ 13 ]
Juan José Pérez Hernández (born Joan Perés [1] c. 1725 – November 3, 1775), often simply Juan Pérez, was an 18th-century Spanish explorer. He was the first known European to sight, examine, name, and record the islands near present-day British Columbia , Canada.
The Zenú language disappeared around 200 years ago. However, the 2018 Colombian Census showed 307,091 Zenú people in Colombia. [1] In 1773 the King of Spain designated 83,000 hectares in San Andrés de Sotavento as a Zenú reserve. This reserve existed until it was dissolved by the National Assembly of Colombia in 1905. The Zenú have fought ...
In 1816, five years before independence, "the Mayor Don Juan Antonio Tomos issued a report of his visit in 1815, in which he indicated 100,000 inhabitants in 39 curatos and 8 villages of Caribbean blacks near Trujillo (estimated at 10,000 ) for a total of 110,000 inhabitants.
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, (1495 - Bogotá now, Colombia, 1579), was the Founder of Bogotá, 1537, the actual capital of Colombia, and Governor of the City after the death in a shipwreck, in 1554, of Pedro de Heredia. Initially, life in the city was bucolic, with fewer than 2000 inhabitants and only one church.
Barranquilla (Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [baraŋˈkiʝa] ⓘ) is the capital district of the Atlántico department in Colombia.It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port [5] in the Caribbean coast region; as of 2018, it had a population of 1,206,319 [6] [2] making it Colombia's fourth-most populous city after Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali.