Pamplona, Colombia
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| Nickname(s): Student City, Miter City, Holy Spirit Valley | |||
 Location of the municipality and town of Pamplona, Colombia in the Norte de Santander Department of Colombia. |
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| Coordinates: 07°22′41″N 72°39′09″W / 7.37806°N 72.65250°W | |||
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| Department | North of Santander | ||
| Founded | 1549 | ||
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| • Mayor | Carlos Arturo Bustos Cortés | ||
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| • Municipality | 1,176 km2 (454 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 2,342 m (8,485 ft) | ||
| Population (2015) | |||
| • Municipality | 57,803 | ||
| • Density | 49/km2 (130/sq mi) | ||
| • Urban | 54,894 | ||
| • Demonym | Pamplonés | ||
| Time zone | Colombia Standard Time (UTC-5) | ||
| Area code(s) | 57 + 7 | ||
| Website | Official website (Spanish) | ||
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Pamplona (pronounced [pamˈplona]) is a municipality and city in Norte de Santander, Colombia.
Nueva Pamplona del Valle del Espíritu Santo, the name by which Don Pedro de Ursúa and Don Ortún Velasco de Velázquez paid tribute to the capital of the province of Navarre in Spain, was founded on 1 November 1549. From there they divided the expeditions that founded - among others the populations of Mérida, San Cristóbal and La Grita, in the Republic of Venezuela, and Ocaña, Salazar de las Palmas, Chinácota, San Faustino, Bucaramanga and Cúcuta in Colombia.
The natives, called Chitareros by the Spanish, were the first inhabitants of the old Province of Pamplona. They were called thus by the Spaniards, because of the general custom that the men had to carry hanging from the waist calabazo or totumo with chicha or maize wine as the Spaniards called it. Asking how the thing they carried was called, the natives responded that it was a chitarero.
When the area was occupied by Pedro de Ursúa and Ortún Velasco in 1549, they reduced the primitive settlers to the regime of encomiendas. Around 100 groups or capitanejos were distributed in 53 encomiendas through all the territory, according to investigator Jaramillo Uribe.
The town's location allowed it to become an important commercial route between the Viceroyalty of New Granada and the Captaincy of Venezuela, with territories of great fertility and auriferous deposits in the mountains, it became one of the richest territories of the colony, only competed by the province of Socorro, which contributed to that outside considered a political and administrative axis of the Spanish crown from the time of the conquest.
Pamplona earned the nickname of "Patriotic City" as described by Simón Bolivar as pioneering the New Granadan revolution 4 July 1810, in person of Doña Agueda Gallardo de Villamizar (freedom that finally declared 31 July of the same year with a provisional Assembly), and later, between thousands eight hundred nineteen and thousands eight hundred twenty one, by having contributed remarkably with human and economic resources for, without equal, develop liberator of Colombia and Venezuela. Pamplona was as important as Bogotá.
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