History of the capital of colombia

Bacatá was the center of the Chibcha tribe who was in these lands, to the time when the Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada founded the city on August 6, 1538.
In this new city, named Bogotá, established the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717. In 1819, Simón Bolívar seized it and named it as the capital of La Gran Colombia (now territory of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela).
It was also the capital of New Granada (now Colombia) when Great Colombia was dissolved in 1830.
The city grew slowly because the Bogota or cachacos wanted to preserve their ancient culture. They wanted much cared for his city and its churches, convents and houses built in Spanish colonial style and their schools as the College of St. Bartholomew (1604), the Santo Tomás de Aquino (1608) which became University Santo Tomas (1639) and the Colegio Mayor del Rosario (1653), among others.
Bogota has been called a very long time, "The South American Athens." Bogotanos take pride in speaking the best and purest Castilian of the New World.
Bogotá expanded rapidly after 1940 due to migration of rural people who came to town in search of better economic opportunities.
A "microcosm" of the Nation
Currently, Bogota is the largest financial center, politics and culture of Colombia. As the major educational center, with famous universities like the University of Los Andes, Javeriana, Nacional, Rosario, School of Engineering Julio Garavito, etc..
Bogota is a cosmopolitan city in constant expansion. It is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas, not only in Colombia but in South America.
Its more than seven million people, including multitudes of immigrants from all over the world, make the capital a true "microcosm" of the nation.
Has a variety of industries such as motor vehicle assembly, food processing, printing and publishing houses, manufacture of beverages, textiles, metal goods, machinery, electrical equipment, etc.. Many banks and corporations maintain their principal home in Bogota. Railways and highways, including the Pan American Highway, linking the city with other major centers.
Bogota includes the city and its surroundings (metropolitan area). The nearest cities are Bosa, Engativa Fontibón, Suba and Usme. Usaquén is part of the capital district, from 1991.
Bogotá offers both residents and visitors everything that a modern city can offer: a vibrant and diverse cultural and intellectual life and a huge selection of restaurants, bars and nightclubs with a variety of dining and entertainment.
This picturesque city known for its colonial architecture, its collection of pre-Columbian art made of gold, splendid colonial churches and its magnificent museums, is also a city of futuristic architecture with ultramodern buildings and construction giant.
It is also a city of "gamines" as children of the tales of Dickens, beggars, shantytowns and major traffic congestion.
This incredible mix of prosperity and poverty, Maseratis and mules, makes Bogotá one of the most chaotic, fascinating and aggressive metropolises of the world. Tourists who visit fall in love with it and want to stay there forever.

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