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7 unusual facts about Santa Marta


Carlos Arango

Born in Santa Marta, Arango began his profesional football career with Deportes Caldas in 1948, and he would win the league title with Caldas in 1950.

Danny Mazo

In the city of Santa Marta at a very young age he started studying music, and at the age of 18 he recorded his first album entitled «Mi Razón De Vivir» (My Reason For Living) with the following singles «Dime Porqué» (Tell My Why), «Tal Vez» (Maybe) & «Por Tu Amor» (For Your Love).

Édouard Placide Duchassaing de Fontbressin

Subsequently, he visited several other islands of the Antilles, eventually relocating as a physician to Santa Marta, Panama (1848), from where he studied the natural history of the isthmus, sending his plant specimens to Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, a botanist in Berlin (these specimens later became the property of August Grisebach).

José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport

Its was changed from Simón Bolívar International Airport, which is currently the name on the airports in Caracas, Venezuela, and Santa Marta, Colombia.

Luis Gabriel Castro

Luis Gabriel Castro Pardo (born 28 July 1985 in Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer who currently plays as a centre-back for Honduran league club C.D. Motagua.

Richard Sawkins

Marching overland through the jungle, Sawkins participated in a surprise attack and looting of Santa Marta, later crossing the isthmus in Indian canoes, and sailing down the Santa Maria River eventually making their way to the Pacific Ocean.

Rodrigo de Bastidas

Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460 – July 28, 1527) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South America, discovered Panama, and founded the city of Santa Marta.


Carlos Valderrama

A 22-foot bronze statue of Valderrama, created by Colombian artist Amilkar Ariza, was erected outside Estadio Eduardo Santos in Valderrama's birthplace of Santa Marta in 2006.

Carlos Valencia

Carlos Alberto Valencia Paredes (born 28 April 1989 in Santa Marta) is a Colombian left wing back, currently in Deportes Copiapó.

Colombia–Venezuela relations

The border dispute long predates the foundations of the modern nations, and goes back to the difficulties experienced in shaping a boundary between the colonies of Santa Marta (now Santa Marta, Colombia) and New Andalusia (now part of Venezuela).

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.

José María Córdova International Airport

International traffic departs from JMC towards destinations in the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Curaçao and Spain, The airport also serves domestic flights to most major Colombian cities such as Bogota, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta and San Andres Island.

Riohacha

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.

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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Copa Airlines Colombia

The result of this process was the start of operations of AeroRepublica in June 1993 with Boeing 727-100 aircraft painted with the colors of the flag of Colombia (yellow, blue and red), initially flying from Bogotá to cities of the Colombian coast as Santa Marta, Cartagena and San Andres.

Gustavo Lozano Contreras

With Eduino Carbonó, he described 125 species of plants endemic to Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.

Icaleptidae

Although Icaleptidae have until now only been described from Ecuador (Cotopaxi) and northern Colombia (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), they are expected to occur in Venezuela.

La Guajira Department

The Spaniards who could took refuse in Río de la Hacha and sent urgent messages to Maracaibo, Valle de Upar, Santa Marta and Cartagena.

Uribia, La Guajira

The friars the created the orphanages for Wayuu children beginning with the La Sierrita orphanage built in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in 1903; followed by the San Antonio orphanage in 1910 located by the Calancala River, Nazareth orphanage in the Serrania de Macuira mountains in 1913 creating a direct influence over the Rancherías of Guarrachal, El Pájaro, Carazúa, Guaraguao, Murumana, Garra patamana and Karraipía.