THE HISTORY OF MY CITY

Founded on August 6, 1538, by Jimnez de Quesada, the population was already elevated to city status in 1540 and was the seat of government of the Audience of New Kingdom of Granada. Charles I gave him the title of very noble, very loyal and oldest city of the New Kingdom and soon took root in the city an active religious and cultural life. There arose at the time when Spain was being invaded by France in the Napoleonic Wars, the first independence outbreaks that led to the release of the vice regal title that was given to the city in 1717 . The city was designated the capital of the Gran Colombia, a territorial utopia that was not consolidated by the territories of Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama later. If at the end of the nineteenth century it had a population of 96,000 inhabitants, in the twentieth century Ecuador reached one million people and the development of transport and facilities enabled currently reached 8 million. Its modern history has been shaken by the convulsions own lived Colombia. After the 1946 elections, in which the Conservative Ospina beat, it was a period of political violence that caused many victims. The assassination of liberal leader Jorge Gaitan sparked a popular uprising (1948) in Bogot, known as bogotazo . Those riots caused a serious civil unrest in the city which caused displacement classes to some urban suburbs. In later times the city has experienced tremendous growth in different directions, according to new open roads and the new international airport. They are closely linked to the city characters lvaro Mutis writer, painter Fernando Botero (which has given the city a magnificent collection of modern art), and Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian idol of motorsports.