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Santa Fe (Spanish pronunciation:) is the third locality of Bogotá, the Capital District of Colombia. Santa Fe is part of the traditional downtown area where Bogotá was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada on August 6, 1538. Historically, this area comprised the entire main urban area of Bogotá, and was known as "Santa Fe de Bogotá".
Map of Santafé, by cacique Turmequé 1572. 1538 - Santa Fe de Bogotá founded by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. [1] 1539 - 27 April: Municipal council in session [2] 1540 - City status granted by Charles I of the Spanish Empire [2] 1549 - City becomes capital of the New Kingdom of Granada; 1550 - Santo Domingo convent founded.
After the establishment of a junta in Cartagena de Indias on 22 May 1810, and in many other cities throughout the Viceroyalty, the Junta de Santa Fe was established on 20 July 1810, in what is often called the Colombian Declaration of Independence.
During colonial centuries two trends were clear, which common source was formed by religious topics: culta, highly influenced by metropolitan 17th-century painting counted in the Santa Fe school with outstanding individuals, for instance Baltasar de Figueroa, the head of a painters dynasty, who created and maintained the school where Gregorio ...
Map of Colombia Bogotá, Capital of Colombia Medellín Cali Barranquilla Cartagena Cúcuta Santa Marta This article lists cities and towns in Colombia by population, according to the 2005 census. A city is displayed in bold if it is a capital city of a department .
By the summer of 1821, events in America were accelerating. The delegate sent to Santa Fe de Bogotá reported the defeat of royalist forces on June 24 at the Battle of Carabobo by Simón Bolívar's troops. [108] Later, it was learned that on July 15, General San Martín had proclaimed the independence of Peru in Lima.
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Bacatá (Chibcha: Muyquytá or Muequetá) is the name given to the main settlement of the Muisca Confederation on the Bogotá savanna.It mostly refers to an area, rather than an individual village, although the name is also found in texts referring to the modern settlement of Funza, in the centre of the savanna.