Bogota's History

Bogota's History.

Article 1 Bogota Now Days

Bogota is the capital city of Colombia, it is also known as Santa Fe of Bogota. Bogota is also the city with more habitants in Colombia, with  7,304,384 habitants since 2009. Surrounding Bogota, there are located some municipalities like Chia, Cota and Soacha. Bogota is one of the 30th largest city in the world. Bogota counts with an altitude of 2,640 masl. Bogota is known because it has a lot of libraries and universities, it is known as the Athens of South America.  Bogota is also named the capital of the books. Bogota is also one of the most largest cities of the world but it is far away of the first one, Bogota is the 30th largest or biggest city in all the world.


The biggest moorland in the world is in Bogota. Bogota's mayor is Samuel Moreno. It has a very cold weather. Bogota counts with a transport system known as the ''Transmilenio'', it also has taxis and buses, the public transports are very important in this city, even with the ''Pico y Plata'', the city is always fill with cars, and is very hard to get home early. In turism, Bogota has a lot of things, including different locations, sport places, thematic parks and malls. One of the places most visited places of Bogota is Monserrate, it is at a high altitude, people likes to go there to see the beautiful landscape. Malls like Unicentro, that has the most secure parking lot in South America, Santa Fe, Gran Estacion and others are also very good malls in Bogota with variety of shops. Each one is located in different parts of the city. Bogota has a stadium call '' El Campin'' which is home of Santa Fe and Millonarios the most known football teams in Colombia and possibly the world.


 The ecological turism includes the plateau of Bogota and the moorland of Sumapaz. Botanic Garden and the Simon Bolivar park are also very famous. Bogota has two thematic parks, and an aquatic park, they are all located in the North part of the city. This ones are ''Mundo Aventura'' and ''Salitre Magico'', the aquatic is called ''Cici Aquapark''. Each one is located in different parts, Salitre Magico is next to Cici Aquapark and Mundo Aventura os located a little away from them, Each has each parking lot, food centers and attractions, like the roller coasters in Salitre Magico, the ''Tronquitos'' in Mundo Aventura and other very fun. Cici Aquapak has a lot of  slides, with water, they are very high and dissy. There is also some slides and pools for little children and a Pool with waves.



Article 2: The Muiscas and the Colonization

The Muiscas were the first people that habit in Bogota. They called it Bacata. They were part of the Chibcha's linguistic family. It is said that they reach to be 500,000 poeple until the Spanish arrival.


Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada was a Spanish conqueror staying in Santa Marta in that times. He heard that the ''Rio Grande'' was a way to reach el Dorado. In 1536 he left Santa Marta and went with 500 men, heading to the center of Colombia in that times, where the Muiscas were living. His expedition was divided in 2. Quesada went by land, and Diego de Urbino, went by river, so they could explore more territory. When they meet again, they heard about indians who made salt cakes to trade for fish and other things. Quesada decided to stop his search to Peru and find this indians. They crossed the mountains and they found crops of corn, beans, salt cakes and other food. When they found the first town of indians only 70 men where left of the expidition since he left Santa Marta. They took gold and capture the Zaque leader, to show their authority, they burned the sun temple. In 1537 they crossed Zipaquira and Nemocon, they continued passing by Lenguazaque and Suesca and they reached Suba. They reached Bacata and fought the Zipa leaders who wanted to prevent their entrance to the town.


After beating the Zipa and the Zaque, leaders of the Muiscas, Quesada decided to settle an urban town. He settled a town and introduce different things like a population made up of different people, education centers, religion places and other things. He changed the name to Bogota.

Artcile 3: The Independence and the Colombian Republic.


In the year of 1810 to 1811, some citizens defeated the Spanish rule in Bogota, they won, and put a government by their own. But they lost power in 1816, when more Spanish military forces arrived and settle their rule again. In 1819 the liberator Simon Bolivar, defeated the Spanish in Boyaca, he renamed Bogota as the capital of the Gran Colombia, that, in that times, was a territory conformed by the actually Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. Later in 1830, Gran Colombia was disolved, Bogota remained as the capital of New Granade that will later transformed into the United States of  Colombia in 1863. In 1886, it's name was changed to the Republic of Colombia, with Bogota as it capital. An internal conflict formed, two political parties arose, the conservatives, who followed Bolivar visions for the country, and the liberals, who followed in Francisco de Paula Santader, the teammate of Bolivar during the indepence visions about the country. The conservative party took control of the government and settled an strong alliance with the Catholic Church, the church took control of education and civil matters. Liberals wanted a descentralized goverment without the church as head of education and civil matters.


This moral conflicts let to a war named as the war of the thousand days, fought by the Conservatives against the Liberals. When this war finished another conflict rise up known as ''El Bogotazo'' that started after the murder of the Liberal Party Candidate Gorge Eliecer Gaitan. United States intervention during the Panama canal contruction and control end in a conflict that finished in the separation of Panama and the foundation as it as a nation. A military revolt toppled Laureano Gomez, the right wing of the Conservative government and bring Gustavo Rojas to power. Rojas greatest achievement was to reduce ''El Bogotazo''. He was overthrown by a military movement and it was stablished a provisional government because Rojas couldn't settle democratic rule. Laureano Gomez and Alberto Lleras, presidents of the Conservative and Liberal stablished a new law that was about a change of President from Liberal to Conservative and Conservative to Liberal each 4 years. This ended ''El Bogotazo''. But his National Front System started to be critized by people, specially after the tricks played in the campaign of Misael Pastrana and result in the defeat of Gustavo Rojas in that elections. In answer to this, the M-19 was founded in answer to this. The M-19 will later dissapeared.


Bogota has suffered a lot of changes from the last listed events, like the Bogotazo and other, the creation of different guerrillas until nowdays.