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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".
1782 - José Antonio Galán and other leaders of the Comuneros are hanged in the Plaza Mayor de Santafé; 1783 - La Enseñanza school founded [3] 1785 - Earthquake [4] 1789 - Population: 18,161; 1791 First map of the city is made by Domingo Esquiaqui; Papel periódico de la Ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogota newspaper begins publication [6]
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 ...
Bogotá has historical museums like the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Museum, the Museum of Independence (Museo de la Independencia), the Quinta de Bolívar and the Casa Museo Francisco José de Caldas, as well as the headquarters of Maloka and the Children's Museum of Bogotá. New museums include the Art Deco and the Museum of Bogotá.
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.
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.
Fontibon was the gate to the current city of Bogotá founded as Santa Fe de Bogotá, for conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada and his fellow expeditioners. The city was cradle to the residence of Peter Claver. Little by little the community became one of the most idolizing and religious.
One of the most defining moments in the history of Colombian independence occurs in Cartagena in the year 1811. When Bogota created a junta in 1810, elite creole men in Cartagena created their own the following year after expelling the Spanish Governor Francisco De Montes. Cartagena, Colombia. On November 11, 1811, the junta comprised the ...