The Republic of Colombia, receives its name in honor of the discoverer of América Cristóbal Colón; it is located in the northwest corner of South America, and has costs in the Atlantic and Pacific costs. It has also jurisdiction on the Amazon river and that is the reason it has been called “Homeland of Three Seas." More Information
Bogotá, Capital of Colombia, is located in a plateau of the Andean Oriental Mountain range at 2,630 meters high. It was. Founded on the 6th August 1.538. It begins to consolidate as the historical, economic, political and cultural center of the country; most of those who inhabit the capital are of diverse places of Colombia and today their census is about 7 million inhabitants. More Information
El Convento de Santo Domingo was founded in the city of Bogotá, in August 1,550. Its canonical official name was Convento de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. This convent was “the maximum” or more important convent of the Dominicans community of la Nueva Granada, today Colombia. To half block of the Plaza Real (current Plaza de Bolivar), this convent played a very important roll in the conquest process and evangelization of the Muiscas, in the Colombian central highland. More Information
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