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Bogotá gave the Spanish-speaking world José Asunción Silva (1865–1896), Modernism pioneer. His poetic work in the novel De sobremesa has a place in outstanding American literature. Rafael Pombo (1833–1912) was an American romanticism poet who left a collection of fables essential part of children imagination and Colombian tradition.
' Holy Faith of Bogotá ') during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not politically part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca.
The Muisca were predominantly farmers and traders and formed a dispersed population occupying numerous small villages and settlements with wooden and clay houses, called bohíos by the Spanish. The iraca of sacred City of the Sun Sugamuxi was the principal religious leader. Other rulers were Tundama in the city of the same name, now called ...
DAVIE was originally called Zona, but was renamed for Developer R.P. Davie, who owned a lot of land along the south fork of the New River. The name change was front-page news in The Fort ...
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
The Caro and Cuervo Institute in Bogotá is the main institution in Colombia to promote the scholarly study of the language and literature of both Colombia and the rest of Spanish America. The educated speech of Bogotá, a generally conservative variety of Spanish, has high popular prestige among Spanish-speakers throughout the Americas. [3]
Percentage Speaking Spanish at Home Population Speaking Spanish at Home (in thousands) New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 18,066,122 20.24 3656 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 12,450,222 36.0128 4483 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 8,898,149 17.3754 1546 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 7,060,749 23.0874 1630
In La Candelaria is the site of the formal foundation of the city, the Plaza Mayor known today as Plaza de Bolívar.Around it are the Capitolio Nacional (seat of the Congress of Colombia), the Palace of Justice (seat of the Supreme Court of Justice), the Palacio Liévano (seat of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá), the Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá, the Chapel del Sagrario and the Archbishop's ...