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  1. Complete the sentence about Bogotá with the correct year: After the Battle of Boyacá on 7 August ______, Bogotá became the capital of the independent nation of Gran Colombia.
  2. Complete the sentence about Bogotá with the correct year: Bogotá ranks 52nd on the Global Cities Index ______, and is considered a global city type "Alpha-" by GaWC.
  3. Complete the sentence about Medellín with the correct year: In February ______, the Urban Land Institute chose Medellín as the most innovative city in the world due to its recent advances in politics…
  4. Complete the sentence about Cali with the correct year: The city was founded on 25 July ______ by the Spanish explorer Sebastián de Belalcázar.
  5. Complete the sentence about Cali with the correct year: As a sporting center for Colombia, it was the host city for the ______ Pan American Games.
  6. Complete the sentence about Cali with the correct year: Petecuy formed a large army with many tribes and fought the Spaniards on Holy Tuesday of ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Cali with the correct year: The founder of Cali, Sebastián de Belalcázar, came to the American continent in the third voyage made by Columbus in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Cali with the correct year: In ______, after serving in Darién and Nicaragua, he joined Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of Peru.
  9. Complete the sentence about Barranquilla with the correct year: Barranquilla has hosted the ______ Central American and Caribbean Games.
  10. Complete the sentence about Barranquilla with the correct year: Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport, built in Barranquilla in ______, was the first airport in South America.
  11. Complete the sentence about Barranquilla with the correct year: In ______, opening the 5th Central American and Caribbean Games, President Mariano Ospina Pérez reaffirmed the nickname of the city as t…
  12. Complete the sentence about Barranquilla with the correct year: In ______, the patriots who obtained the independence of the Cartagenas adopted the current flag.
  13. Complete the sentence about Barranquilla with the correct year: The flag was carried by Simon Bolívar during the campaign of Lower Magdalena in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Cartagena, Colombia with the correct year: In ______, Cartagena's colonial walled city and fortress were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  15. Complete the sentence about Cartagena, Colombia with the correct year: Around AD ______, the area was inhabited by different tribes of the Carib language family, more precisely the Mocanae sub-family.
  16. Complete the sentence about Cúcuta with the correct year: In ______, Hernán Pérez de Quesada reached the territory of Chinácota, but had to turn back the same year due to resistance by the indigenous…
  17. Complete the sentence about Bucaramanga with the correct year: With the political reorganization of ______, Bucaramanga replaced Socorro as the departmental capital.
  18. Complete the sentence about Villavicencio with the correct year: The capital of Meta Department, it was founded on April 6, ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Ibagué with the correct year: The indigenous Pijaos commanded by cacique Ibagué were not fond of Spaniards colonizing the area so the city was re-founded in its current loc…
  20. Complete the sentence about Ibagué with the correct year: From April to December ______, Ibagué was briefly the capital of the New Granada following a coup d'etat promoted by general José María Melo.
  21. Complete the sentence about Bello, Antioquia with the correct year: Meaning "Beautiful" in English, Bello was founded in ______ as "Hato Viejo".
  22. Complete the sentence about Bello, Antioquia with the correct year: Bello was granted municipal status in ______, officially making it one of the cities of Antioquia Department.
  23. Complete the sentence about Bello, Antioquia with the correct year: In ______, the captain of Rodas came to exercise control over the area from the Spanish Crown, permitting the use of the territory f…
  24. Complete the sentence about Bello, Antioquia with the correct year: From ______ onward, the area began to be called Hatoviejo instead of Hato de Rodas or Hato de Aburrá to distinguish it from later he…
  25. Complete the sentence about Pasto, Colombia with the correct year: Pasto was founded in ______ and named after Indigenous people of the area.
  26. Complete the sentence about Pasto, Colombia with the correct year: Pasto was founded in ______ by the Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar.
  27. Complete the sentence about Neiva with the correct year: Neiva was first founded in ______ by Juan de Cabrera in an area now belonging to the municipality of Campoalegre.
  28. Complete the sentence about Neiva with the correct year: In ______, Juan de Alonso y Arias relocated the city to the place that is now the municipality of Villavieja.
  29. Complete the sentence about Neiva with the correct year: The city was founded, at its current location, for the third and final time in ______ by Diego de Ospina y Medinilla.
  30. Complete the sentence about Neiva with the correct year: In ______ the city became the capital of the newly created Huila Department, which had been severed from the Tolima Department by the national…
  31. Complete the sentence about Armenia, Colombia with the correct year: As a result, the historic center of Armenia was named as part of the "Coffee Cultural Landscape" of UNESCO World Heritage Site in _…
  32. Complete the sentence about Armenia, Colombia with the correct year: In August ______, six months after its founding, Armenia reached a population of 100 people, allowing it to gain legal recognition…
  33. Complete the sentence about Armenia, Colombia with the correct year: On January 25, ______, a 6.2 'Local' mag. scale</span>"}]]}'>ML earthquake occurred in Quindío.
  34. Complete the sentence about Popayán with the correct year: Much of the city's original splendor was destroyed on 31 March ______, when an earthquake toppled many buildings.
  35. Complete the sentence about Sincelejo with the correct year: The village of Sincelejo was founded on October 4, ______, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, with the name San Francisco de Asís de Since…
  36. Complete the sentence about Sincelejo with the correct year: By ______, Sincelejo was one of the largest settlements in the Province of Cartagena.
  37. Complete the sentence about Sincelejo with the correct year: In ______, Sincelejo was nearly destroyed by a conflagration which consumed most of the central zone; nevertheless the town was rebuilt.
  38. Complete the sentence about Sincelejo with the correct year: With the creation of the Sucre Department in ______, Sincelejo subsequently became its capital.
  39. Complete the sentence about Tunja with the correct year: The Spanish city was founded by captain Gonzalo Suárez Rendón on August 6, ______, exactly one year after the capital Santafé de Bogotá.
  40. Complete the sentence about Florencia, Caquetá with the correct year: In ______, the territory was explored for the first time by the Spanish conquistador, Hernán Pérez de Quesada.
  41. Complete the sentence about Quibdó with the correct year: The Emberá people ceded much of their territory to the Spanish Franciscan order in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Leticia, Amazonas with the correct year: The Peruvian captain Benigno Bustamante, then governor of the Peruvian department of Loreto, founded the city itself on April 25, _…
  43. Complete the sentence about Villa de Leyva with the correct year: The town was founded on June 12, ______ by and named after the first president of the New Kingdom of Granada, Andrés Díaz Venero de Le…
  44. Complete the sentence about Villa de Leyva with the correct year: The house in which he was born, on the Plazuela de San Agustín, was acquired by Colombia's Air Force in ______ and turned into a milit…
  45. Complete the sentence about Barichara with the correct year: The town's unique, colorful architecture was an inspiration for the settings in the hit ______ Disney animated feature Encanto.
  46. Complete the sentence about Salento, Quindío with the correct year: In ______ Simón Bolívar traveled the route and ordered that it be upgraded due to its poor condition and strategic importance.
  47. Complete the sentence about Guatapé with the correct year: In ______, the indigenous people under Guatapé of this region were grouped into a shelter known as "San Antonio de Remolinos Peñol".
  48. Complete the sentence about Guatapé with the correct year: Guatapé was founded on 4 October ______, by the Spaniard Don Francisco Giraldo y Jimenez.
  49. Complete the sentence about Zipaquirá with the correct year: On July 18, ______, Don oidor Luis Henríquez established a settlement on the site with workers and their families, and named it the "Villag…
  50. Complete the sentence about Zipaquirá with the correct year: In ______, the Spanish official Don Francisco de Sosa named as wards the 321 native inhabitants in the "Old Town", according to the declara…
  51. Complete the sentence about Zipaquirá with the correct year: On October 5, ______, Gabriel de Carvajal became the guardian of 771 natives in the region and 125 in Tibitó.
  52. Complete the sentence about Castillo San Felipe de Barajas with the correct year: The castle was built in ______, and is located on the Hill of San Lázaro in a strategic location, dominating approache…
  53. Complete the sentence about Castillo San Felipe de Barajas with the correct year: In the ______ raid on Cartagena, during the War of the Grand Alliance, the castle fell to the French privateer Baron d…
  54. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Another expansion was made to the fortress in ______ by Antonio de Arévalo.
  55. Complete the sentence about Castillo San Felipe de Barajas with the correct year: During the Spanish American wars of independence, by ______ a large Spanish expeditionary force under Pablo Morillo ha…
  56. Complete the sentence about Monserrate with the correct year: By ______, Father Rojas had been assigned guarding the sanctuary and ordered the carving of a crucifix and a statue of Jesus Christ.
  57. Complete the sentence about La Candelaria, Bogotá with the correct year: The area was the site of the Bogotá's founding on August 6, ______, and it includes the historic center of Bogotá.
  58. Complete the sentence about La Candelaria, Bogotá with the correct year: In April ______, the formal foundation was established in the current Plaza de Bolívar.
  59. Complete the sentence about La Candelaria, Bogotá with the correct year: When the Special District of Bogotá was created in ______, there was no significant distinction between the central area of Bog…
  60. Complete the sentence about Plaza de Bolívar, Bogotá with the correct year: The first building on the square, a primitive cathedral, was constructed in ______, a year after the foundation of the Colom…
  61. Complete the sentence about Plaza de Bolívar, Bogotá with the correct year: During the early colonial period, the Plaza Mayor was a market square, where circus acts, civil, religious and cultural even…
  62. Complete the sentence about Plaza de Bolívar, Bogotá with the correct year: In the southeastern corner of the square, the Mayor School of San Bartolomé, a secondary school institution, originally a un…
  63. Complete the sentence about Gold Museum, Bogotá with the correct year: In ______, the Bank of the Republic began helping to protect the archaeological patrimony of Colombia.
  64. Complete the sentence about Cocora Valley with the correct year: The valley is part of the Los Nevados National Natural Park, incorporated into the existing national park by the Colombian government i…
  65. Complete the sentence about Cocora Valley with the correct year: The Cocora Valley is located on the upper reaches of the Quindío River, the main river of the namesake department, located at an altitu…
  66. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the park was designated a Biosphere reserve by UNESCO.
  67. Complete the sentence about Pico Cristóbal Colón with the correct year: Colón was first climbed in ______ by Walter Wood, Anderson Bakewell and E.
  68. Complete the sentence about Ciudad Perdida with the correct year: Ciudad Perdida was discovered in ______ by Los Sepúlvedas, a group of local treasure looters.
  69. Complete the sentence about Caño Cristales with the correct year: Caño Cristales was found in ______ by a group of cattle farmers.
  70. Complete the sentence about Chiribiquete National Park with the correct year: Chiribiquete National Natural Park was established on 21 September ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Orinoco with the correct year: The mouth of the Orinoco River at the Atlantic Ocean was documented by Christopher Columbus on 1 August ______, during his third voyage.
  72. Complete the sentence about Orinoco with the correct year: In ______, starting at the principal outlet in the delta, the Boca de Navios, Diego de Ordaz sailed up the river to the Meta.
  73. Complete the sentence about Orinoco with the correct year: The first bridge across the Orinoco River, the Angostura Bridge at Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, was completed in ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Orinoco with the correct year: The El Furrial oil field was discovered in ______, producing from late Oligocene shallow marine sandstones in an overthrusted foreland basin.
  75. Complete the sentence about Magdalena River with the correct year: The Magdalena River Valley is home to a species of butterfly, Magdalena Valley ringlet or Splendeuptychia ackeryi, first identified i…
  76. Complete the sentence about Magdalena River with the correct year: The first recorded European contact with the potato was in ______ in the Magdalena Valley.
  77. Complete the sentence about Magdalena River with the correct year: The Spanish invaders became familiar with the crop and it was probably around ______ when a Spanish ship first introduced potatoes to…
  78. Complete the sentence about Cauca River with the correct year: On November 18, ______, Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported that the river was receiving an average of 500 tons of residual waste a da…
  79. Complete the sentence about Lake Guatavita with the correct year: Spanish colonizers and Conquistadors knew about the existence of a sacred lake in the Eastern Ranges of the Andes possibly as early as…
  80. Complete the sentence about La Guajira Peninsula with the correct year: According to Picon, the word Guajiros was first used in the year ______ to designate some 200 indigenous families inhabiting the…
  81. Complete the sentence about La Guajira Peninsula with the correct year: According to Oliver, the term Guajiro did not appear on Spanish records until the year ______, in a document by a friar named Pe…
  82. Complete the sentence about La Guajira Peninsula with the correct year: Attanasio Maria Vincenzo Soler-Royo was appointed to the vicariate, as titular Bishop of Citharizum, on 18 April ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Rosario Islands with the correct year: The national park was founded in ______, to protect one of the most important coral reefs of the Colombian Caribbean coast.
  84. Complete the sentence about Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia with the correct year: In a ______ survey, Juan Valdez was identified as the advertising image with the greatest recall in United Stat…
  85. Complete the sentence about San Agustín Archaeological Park with the correct year: Belonging to the San Agustin culture, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about San Agustín Archaeological Park with the correct year: In ______ German ethnologist Konrad Theodor Preuss led an archaeological excavation in the area at the behest of the…
  87. Complete the sentence about Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá with the correct year: The traditional halite mining was described by Alexander von Humboldt during his visit to Zipaquira in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Las Lajas Sanctuary with the correct year: Pope Paul VI granted the Marian title as the Virgin of the Holy Rosary as the Patroness of Ipiales via his decree Tutela Cælestis…
  89. Complete the sentence about Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá with the correct year: Pope Pius XI raised the shrine to the status of minor basilica via the Pontifical decree Exstat in…
  90. Complete the sentence about Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá with the correct year: In ______, the archbishop of Santa Fe in New Granada, Luis Zapata de Cárdenas, laid the foundation…
  91. Complete the sentence about Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá with the correct year: Despite this, on September 11, ______, Pope Pius IV granted it the title of Cathedral.
  92. Complete the sentence about Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá with the correct year: When Friar Domingo died in ______, the construction of the interior of the cathedral was completed.
  93. Complete the sentence about Medellín Metro with the correct year: The company known in Spanish as Empresa de Transporte Masivo del Valle de Aburrá - Metro de Medellín Ltda was created on 31 May ______…
  94. Complete the sentence about Medellín Metro with the correct year: In ______, research on economic and technical possibilities began, performed by the company Mott, Hay and Anderson Ltd.
  95. Complete the sentence about Paramo de Sumapaz with the correct year: In ______, José Celestino Mutis led the Botanic Expedition, with the purpose of studying the flora and fauna of the region.
  96. Complete the sentence about Paramo de Sumapaz with the correct year: The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt made the first description of the páramo and the local plants in ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Colombia with the correct year: The Spanish landed in La Guajira in ______, and by the mid-16th century had colonized much of present-day Colombia, establishing the New Kin…
  98. Complete the sentence about Colombia with the correct year: Independence from the Spanish Empire was declared in ______, with what is now Colombia emerging as the United Provinces of New Granada.
  99. Complete the sentence about Colombia with the correct year: After a Spanish reconquest, Colombian independence was secured and the Gran Colombia period began in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Colombia with the correct year: With the backing of the US and France, Panama seceded from Colombia in ______, resulting in Colombia's present borders.

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