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5 unusual facts about Riohacha


Arnoldo Iguarán

Born in Riohacha, Iguarán started and ended his club football career with Cúcuta Deportivo.

Elder José Figueroa

Elder José Figueroa Sarmiento (born October 14, 1980 in Riohacha) is a Colombian and naturalized Salvadoran football player who currently plays for FAS of El Salvador.

Riohacha

The next major attack, led by the famous English pirate Francis Drake, took place in 1569, when Drake pillaged the city searching for gold and pearls.

Riohacha has one airport, the Almirante Padilla Airport which covers a route from and to the Colombian capital city Bogotá, the near cities of Valledupar and Santa Marta, and it goes to Aruba too.

National Festival of the Dividivi, celebrated every year from June 29 to July 1, the last day celebrating the creation of the Department of La Guajira.


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José Ignacio de Cavero y Cárdenas

Cartagena would eventually join with other provinces to create the Republic of Colombia under President Simón Bolívar, and was appointed in 1824 by Vice President Francisco de Paula Santander y Omaña to serve as the 3rd Prefect Intendant of the Magdalena River and the Isthmus province, which now encompassed the former province of Cartagena as well as the provinces of Santa Marta, Riohacha, and the Isthmus.

Pedro Messía de la Cerda, 2nd Marquis of Vega de Armijo

On May 2, 1769 at El Rincón, near Río de la Hacha, they set their village afire, burning the church and two Spaniards who had taken refuge in it.

RCH

Almirante Padilla Airport (IATA airport code: RCH) in Riohacha, Colombia

Water privatization in Colombia

It was followed by a second contract in Barranquilla in 1996 and more concessions in the next years in Santa Marta, Tunja, Montería, Palmira, Girardot, and Riohacha.


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