BOGOTA'S HISTORY

Bogota was build in Bacata that was the center of tribut of the Chibchas that was in a big part of Bogota, Bacata was conquisted by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada and this man fundate the city on august 6 of 1538.


In this year the city was denominated Bogota. This city was part of the country Nueva Granada, Simon Bolivar took power of the country and he gave the name to the country La Gran Colombia what is now a days Colombia, Ecuador Panama and Venezuela.


Bogota had a slow development because Bogota citizens wanted to conservate the historical part of the city.


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the history of bogota refers tothe history of the are surrounding the colombisn capital city of bogota. the area of modern bogota was first populated by groups of indegenous people that migrated to mesoamerica. among these grouos were the muiscas that settled inwhat is now mainly cundinamarca and boyaca. with the arrival of the spanish colonizers te area became a major settlement, funded by gonzalo jimenez de quesada and later capitak of the spanish provinces. with independence bogota became capital of the gran colombia.

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european setlement of bogota began when gonzalo jimenez de quesada, the knight of el dorado, conquered bacata, the capital of the chibcha indians. on the site he founded the settlement of danta fe de bacata. the spanish settlers soon corrupted the name to bogota. an audenciawas established to rule teh new colony of new granada. the audencia was a tribunal that had both administrative and judicial powers over the colony , but was subordiante to the vicerory of peru.

as the settlement grew over the years,it maintained a large degree of independence due to difficultes of travel between lima an d bogota, in order to influence more control over the colony, spain established  a new viceroyalty, new granada, and bogota became the capital.