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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".
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 ...
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. 1553 - Main Plaza relocated [3]
Law VIII ("Royal Audiencia and Chancery of Santa Fe in the New Kingdom of Granada") of Title XV ("Of the Royal Audiencias and Chanceries of the Indies") of Book II of the Recopilación de Leyes de las Indias of 1680—which compiles the decrees of July 17, 1549; May 10, 1554; and August 1, 1572—describes the final limits and functions of the ...
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.
Camargo Ponce de León, Germán. "Historia pintoresca y las perspectivas de ordenamiento de los Cerros Orientales de Santa Fe de Bogotá" (PDF). pp. 1– 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-16; Guerrero Uscátegui, Alberto Lobo (1992). Geología e Hidrogeología de Santafé de Bogotá y su Sabana (Report).
The Real Audiencia of Santa Fe de Bogotá was established in 1549, but became part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717. It was re-incorporated into the Viceroyalty of Peru from 1723 to 1739. It met in the city of Santa Fe de Bogotá until it was disestablished in 1810. It was briefly re-established between 1816 and 1819.
1 Encomenderos & ordinary Mayor - Spanish Administration of Santa Fe de Bogotá (1538–1810) [1] 2 Mayors of Santa Fe de Bogotá 3 Municipal Mayors of Bogotá (1910–1954)