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The Muisca people were called "Salt People", due to their extraction of salt from brines in large pots. The main salt mines were and are still in Zipaquirá, Nemocón and Tausa, at the northern edge of the Bogotá savanna. Emeralds were mined in Chivor and Somondoco and traded with the Muzo, who were called the "Emerald People".
The National Museum of Colombia (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Colombia) is the National Museum of Colombia housing collections on its history, art, culture. [1] [2] Located in Bogotá downtown, is the biggest and oldest museum in Colombia. [citation needed] The National Museum of Colombia is a dependency of the Colombian Ministry of Culture.
Bogotá is also home to the Musical Archive of the Cathedral of Bogotá (with thousands of books and choral song-colonial period), the Archdiocesan Archive, the Archive of the Conciliar Seminary of Bogotá, the Archive History National University of Colombia and the Archive of the Mint in Bogotá, under the Bank of the Republic.
1867 - Universidad Nacional de Colombia (national university) is founded; 1870 - Banco de Bogota founded [10] 1871 - Academia Colombiana de la Lengua (national language academy) founded; 1875 - Capitol building constructed [1] 1876 - Prison begins operating. [13] 1881 - Papel Periódico Ilustrado begins publication [14] 1884
In 1910, the National Academy of Music would become the National Conservatory of Colombia. [ 4 ] In 1849, José Caicedo Rojas wrote a poem, and José Joaquín Guarín composed the melody of an anthem called " Oda al 20 de julio " ("Ode to 20 July"), which was set to music in the key of E flat for four voices and orchestra. [ 11 ]
The Spanish made several attempts to settle along the north coast of today's Colombia in the early 16th century, but their first permanent settlement, at Santa Marta, dates from 1525. The Spanish commander Pedro de Heredia founded Cartagena on June 1, 1533, in the former location of the indigenous Caribbean Calamarí village.
Challenges for the Windsors weren’t confined to Britain. Across the Atlantic, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex embarked on several trips abroad to Nigeria, Canada and Colombia to ...
The National Capitol of Colombia (Spanish: Capitolio Nacional de Colombia), often simply referred to as Capitolio Nacional (National Capitol), is a building on Bolivar Square in central Bogotá, the construction of which began in 1848 and was finished in 1926.