Locations

Locations

1^st Article

Bogotá is very big city that is the capital city of Colombia.  It was founded in the year 1538 by the Spaniards named Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Sebastian de Belalcazar y Nicolas de Federman.

By the time years and centuries, Bogotá started growing by the surroundings of the Plaza de Bolivar, the place where the city was founding.  But in others places of the Sabana there were founded d so many towns and villages all around the growing city. These ones grew so fast and by some decades they had connected and mixed with Bogotá.  As Bogota was more important, the city actually absorbed the others ones.

At the beginning the city could just be managed by an only major but it grew so big and it was very difficult to be governed by one person.  So, taking in count the old towns that were taking by the city the city government decided to divide the city in some groups of neighborhoods that were called “localidades” or locations. Each locality has one minor mayor that is selected by the principal mayor. That person acts like a mayor in the designed area.

Right now the city is divided into 20 locations. The biggest one is Sumapaz and the smallest is La Candelaria. The locations are divided in the UPZ (Unidades de Planeamiento Zonal) that means zonal planning units that are divided in neighborhoods.

 

2^nd Article

As I live in Usaquen, I will write some about my location. It is a very big location that takes the northeast of the capital city and has some of the best malls and schools. It is a really great place to live because you have shops and supermarkets really close to you.

It has one of the Restaurant Districts named previously, where there are restaurants that have food from world-wide gastronomy. There are museums such as the Chico Museum. It has the Country Club too where you can practice tennis and golf. There are many historical places such as the Hacienda Santa Barbara Mall and the Santa Barbara Church.

As I was explaining in the article Usaquen was one of the growing cities that were absorbed by the city of Santa Fe de Bogota. It used to be an indigenous settlement but then was a town. It is now one of the most important locations of the city.

One important place in this locality is the “Mercado de las Pulgas” or the Flea Market where you can get handcrafts and art for your house or for someone. It is a street full of tents where there is people selling cool stuff and products.

What do you know from your location?

3^rd Article

La Candelaria is the smallest location of the city, but is the most important one. It was the first one to be founded and has the starting plaza been the three Spaniards met and placed Santa Fe de Bogota. It is very important and has many historical buildings and many documents, pictures, paintings and items.

This was the setting of the Cry of Independence in the year 1810 and the place where the Bogotaso happened in the year 1948. The president of the nation and the mayor of the city live there. It has lots of museums and restaurants. This location has one of the most important theaters of Latin-American that is known as the Teatro Colon and it is too old but it is really well conserved with all the luxury and items it ever happened to have.



This location is an obligated attraction for any tourist that is coming to the city. It is so small but too important and full of attractions that it may not be done and visited in only one day, because of every place you might go and attend to the explanation done by a well-prepared guide that will show you every item, aspect or detail you just can see at first sight and its definition or interpretation.

Merry Christmas and the bests wiches from BOGOTA D.C