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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 ...
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (Spanish: [gonˈθalo xiˈmeneθ ðe keˈsaða]; 1509 [1] – 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia.
Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records. The state received its name from that conquistador , who called the peninsula La Pascua Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called ...
1502: Florida is mapped on the Cantino map; 1513 April 2: Ponce de Leon is claimed to have discovered Florida. [1] [verification needed] 1515–1519: Spanish explorers visit Pinellas barrier islands while trading with Tocobaga. 1528: Panfilo de Narvaez expedition explores the Pinellas Peninsula. [2] 1538: The horse introduced into Florida
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.
Santa Cruz de Ytuchafun or Ychuntafun Capoli or Santa Cruz y San Pedro de Alcantara de Ychuntafun Apalachee: 1672–1704 [107] Santa Cruz de Tarihica Northern Utina: 1612–1695 [108] Santa Elena de Machaba Yustaga: 1655–1705 [109] Santa Fe de Toloca/Teleco/Toloco 29.92456, -82.50545: Potano: 1616–1702 [70] Santa Isabel de Utinahica ...