Cartagena de Indias
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Cartagena
de Indias
Area: 572 km²
Weather: 30 °C, viento N a 13 km/h, 74% de humedad
Time Zone UTC/GMT -5 hours
Population: 845.801 (2005) UN
The city was founded on June 1, 1533 by Pedro de Heredia, was the great military and
commercial outpost of the Spanish crown in America, which became the seat of the great
battles that gave him the title of 'The Heroic'. Cartagena, Caribbean main port and second
city of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, was the first province to declare independence.
Your road to freedom began May 22, 1810 when it established a triumvirate that replaced
the dictatorship only the governor. Given the internal disputes, the November 1 181 the
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brothers Gabriel and German Gutiérrez de Piñeres, militias supported by Pedro Romero,
induce a popular revolt that forced the Supreme Board to declare independence.
This process prompted other provinces to seek their freedom.