Cartagena
de Indias has a population that surpasses the
900,000 inhabitants. It is an important tourist
center, commercial port, industrial zone and
place of international events.
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From 1984, catalogued like Historical and Cultural
patrimony of the Humanity, today it is prepared
for its definitive development with projects
of great impact, led by its local government,
with the consolidation of the administrative
decentralization and the deprived public cooperation
it has laid the the foundations to reach a sustainable
development to human scale.
Cartagena de Indias, city of peace, festive,
amiable and cosy, is a full destiny of history:
architectonic jewel that lives like the city
Heart of the Caribbean.
Cartagena Name´s
The name of "Cartagena" that occurred
some years later him to our bay, must, probably,
to the famous navigator and cosmógrafo
Juan de la Cosa, that had been one of the companions
of Columbus in the trip of the discovery.
When Juan de la Cosa and his companions penetrated
with their ships to this bay, it was looked
to them like Cartagena in Spain, and for that
reason they baptized it with that name: Bay
of Cartagena.
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LIMITS
OF THE CITY
It limits with the Caribbean Sea and the Municipalities
of Santa Catalina, Clemencia, Santa Rosa, Turbaco
and Turbana.
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GENERAL
PERFORMANCES
Founded on 1.533
Latitude 10º 23' N
Length 75º 30' Or
Altitude 1 Msnm
Temperature 28 °C
Extension 572 Km2
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FAIRS
and FESTIVALES
Reinado Nacional de la Belleza, Nuestra Señora
de la Candelaria y Fiesta de San Pedro Claver.
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GEOGRAPHIC
FEATURES
Mar Caribe, Arroyos Barro, Carvajal, Limón,
Tabacal y Ternera; los caños Arroyo Hondo,
Guayacán y Sangre de Toro, el Canal del
Dique; Ciénagas Tesca, la Virgen, Matunilla,
La Venta; Islas de Barú y Tierra Bomba,
los archipiélagos Islas del Rosario y
San Bernardo.
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SITES
OF TOURIST INTEREST
Museo Arqueológico, Museo de Arte Moderno,
Museo del Oro y de Biología Marina, Muelle
de los Pegasos, Bahía de Las Animas,
Boca Canoa, Casa Del Marqués de Premio
Real, Monumento a la India Catalina, Murallas
de los castillos de San Felipe de Barajas, Palacio
de la Inquisición e Islas del Rosario.
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HOW TO GO
Dista de Bogotá 1.274 Kms.
Vía Aérea a 90 Minutos de Bogotá.
Vía Terrestre desde Bogotá, tomando
la ruta a Villeta, Honda, Pto Triunfo, Medellín
(400 Km), Tarazá, Montería, Cartagena
643 Km.
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