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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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").
Bello is also known as the "City of Artists" in Colombia. Its current mayor is Lorena Gonzáles Ospina. In July 1541, troops under the command of Jerónimo Luis Tejelo (Deputy Marshal to Jorge Robledo ) found the wide valley of Los Aburrá inhabited by indigenous farmers who had "a habitat organized in groups with scattered houses, forming ...
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 ...
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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]