Fontibon, Bogota, Colombia

Fontibon is a former municipality located at the easternmost side of Bogotá, Colombia. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... Bogotá (known officially in Spanish as Bogotá D.C., formerly Santafé de Bogotá D.C.), is the capital and largest city in Colombia, with a population of roughly 7. ...

History

Founded on May 10, 1954^{[citation needed]}; Fontibon was the gate to the current Bogotá City also known as Santa Fe de Bogotá, to the conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada and his fellow expeditioners. May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bogotá (known officially in Spanish as Bogotá D.C., formerly Santafé de Bogotá D.C.), is the capital and largest city in Colombia, with a population of roughly 7. ... Conquistador (Spanish: []) (meaning Conqueror in the Spanish language) is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers and adventurers who brought much of the Americas and Asia Pacific under Spanish colonial rule between the 15th and 17th centuries, starting with the 1492 settlement established in the modern-day Bahamas... Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509–1579) was a lawyer by training. ...

The origin of the city's name can be traced to the indigenous leader "Cacique Huintiva" (meaning powerful cacique) and the mutation of the word to its actual one, being this among other names such as Ontibon and Hontibon. A Hupa man. ...

The city was craddle to the residence of Saint Pedro Claver. Little by little the community became one of the most idolizing and religious. The city started to expand, and to the sixteenth century it was divided into 22 "capitanias".

Fontibon's original maps constitute one of Colombia's oldest documents. A map is a simplified depiction of a space which highlights relations between components (objects, regions) of that space. ...

In the year 1956, Fontibon was merged with Bogota, losing it's status as "associate town".

Monuments

• The Fontibon Cathedral.
• The San Antonio Bridge.

Transportation

The city is still far away from Bogota's major mass transport system - the TransMilenio. Fontibon's main highway leads to Medellín. Calle 19 Station in July 2004 The TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit system that serves Bogotá, Colombia. ... Nickname: Location of the city (urban in red) and municipality (dark gray) of Medellin in Antioquia Department. ...