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| Region | Orinoquía | ||
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| Department | Department of Meta | ||
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| - Mayor | Héctor Raúl Franco Roa | ||
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| - Total | 1,328 km² (512. Because of its natural structure Colombia can be divided into six very distinct Natural regions. The Orinoquía Region (Región de la Orinoquía is one of the five Natural regions of Colombia. Colombia is a unitary republic conformed by thirty-two departments ( Spanish: departamentos, sing A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 7 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 467 m (1,532 ft) | ||
| Population | |||
| - Total | 384,131 | ||
| Website: http://www.alcaldiadevillavicencio.gov.co/ | |||
Villavicencio is a city and municipality in Colombia, capital of the Department of Meta, with 361,058 inhabitants. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. (2005 census) The city is located at 4°08N, 73°40W, 75 km (about 45 m) southeast of the Colombian capital city of Bogotá (DC) by the Guatiquía river. Bogotá —officially named Bogotá DC (DC for " Distrito Capital " which means "Capital District" formerly called Santa Fe de Bogotá It is also known colloquially as "Villavo".
Lying in a rural zone of tropical climate, Villavicencio is on the great Colombian-Venezuelan plain called Los Llanos, which is situated to the east of the Andes mountains. Los Llanos redirect here for the Chilean region see Los Llanos Chile Los Llanos (meaning the flat plains is a vast Tropical grassland The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. Villavicencio is also called "La Puerta al Llano," or "The Gate to the Llanos," due to its location on the historical path from the Colombian interior to the vast savannas that lie between the Andes range and the Amazon rainforest. A savanna or savannah is a Tropical or Subtropical Grassland or Woodland Ecosystem. The Amazon Rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonía
Villavicencio's proximity to huge mountains and great plains make the city an example of Colombia's geodiversity. Geodiversity or geological diversity is the diversity of Minerals rocks (whether 'solid' or 'drift' Fossils Soils land forms and Because it is located in the foothills of the Andes, the morning and evening breezes cool the city that is very hot for most of the day.
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History
The German Conquistador Nikolaus Federmann reached the altiplano of Bogotá by approaching it from the plains of Venezuela, a large unsettled area that is formed by the Orinoco basin, in 1536. This article is about the Spanish explorer soldiers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuriesfor other uses see Conquistador (disambiguation A Conquistador Nikolaus Federmann (Nicolás de Federmán (born c 1505 in Ulm – died February 1542 in Valladolid) was a German Adventurer and Conquistador The Altiplano ( Spanish for high plain) where the Andes are at their widest is the most extensive area of High plateau on earth outside Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the ORiNOCO is the brand name that was used for a family of wireless networking solutions by Proxim (previously Lucent) However, this vast area, remained unexplored and uncolonized for the next 300 years. Colombia was settled along the mountainous folds of the Magdalena and Cauca valleys, and all of its commerce with the outside world was oriented towards the Caribbean sea, thus, because of its geographical barriers, the extreme heat, and inhospitable climate, the "Llanos" remained forgotten and unsettled. The Magdalena River (Spanish Río Magdalena) also called Yuma River (Spanish Río Yuma) is the principal River of Colombia, running The Cauca River is a River in Colombia that lies between the Occidental and Central Cordilleras Born in southwestern Colombia For the region see Caribbean. The Caribbean Sea (kəˈrɪbiən or /ˌkærɨˈbiːən/ is a tropical Sea in the Western Hemisphere
In the 1840s, some farmers from Caqueza, a town on the eastern folds of Bogotá started the modern settlement of Gramalote, which officially became the parish of Villavicencio in 1855. Caqueza is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Antonio Villavicencio was a patriot in the Colombian war of independence. Antonio Villavicencio y Verástegui ( January 9, 1775 - June 6, 1816) was a Neogranadine Lieutenant Statesman and soldier Bolívar's War is a term coined by some historians to refer to a series of independence wars in South America from 1811 to 1825 led by General Simón Bolívar.
The llaneros, the inhabitants of the plains, were fierce horsemen who first fought for the Spanish royalists and then for the Venezuelan and Colombian rebels during the war of Independence. By crossing the Andes mountains with Bolivar, they surprised the Spaniards on the plateau of Tunja and cleared the way for the taking of Santa Fe de Bogotá in August 1819. The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. Tunja ˈtuŋha is a city and municipality in Colombia, capital of the Boyacá department and part of the subregion of the Central Boyacá Vaccines, a mule road, and the availability of vast areas of free land, drove new colonizers to continue the settlement of Villavicencio. As the roads improved the access to the Llanos, the farmers could send their produce and cattle to the markets of Bogotá.
After the assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a popular Liberal politician in 1948, the large landowners saw a pretext to drive farmers out of their lands. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán ( January 23, 1898 &ndash April 9, 1948) was a politician a leader of a Populist movement in Colombia The Colombian Liberal Party ( Spanish: Partido Liberal Colombiano PLC is a social liberal - social democratic party in Colombia. The llaneros resisted by driving the army out of its populated centers. The guerrillas never took Villavicencio, but they brought the fighting to the military base of Apiay. As the fighting between the government and the llanero guerrillas was out of control, a military coup in June of 1953, took Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to power who immediately negotiated a cease fire and amnesty for the insurgents. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (born in the city of Tunja, Boyacá on March 12, 1900 died in Melgar, Tolima on January
1960s-present
Since the 1960s and with the development of the Colombian Civil War, thousands of people have been displaced from their land and have arrived to Villavicencio from all over Colombia seeking refuge and protection from guerrillas, paramilitary groups such as FARC, and even the Colombian military. The Colombian armed conflict or Colombian Civil War are terms that are employed to refer to the current asymmetric low-intensity armed conflict in Guerrilla warfare is the unconventional warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes raids etc A paramilitary is a force whose function and organization are similar to those of a professional military force but which are not regarded as having the same status The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo also known by the Acronym of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees tried to bring minimal assistance to these displaced people. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR (established December 14, 1950) is a
Villavicencio has grown from a small setllement of hardly 20 people in the 1850s to an uncontrolled and disparate city of over 350,000 inhabitants in 2007. It is a vast modern city which has grown out of control. It does not have clean water for all of its inhabitants, its sanitary system does not exist in poor neighbourhoods, and even its electrical grid is not sufficient to meet the needs of the city.
A modern road has shortened the driving time to Bogotá to one and half hours.
Geography and Climate
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Economy
Cattle, agriculture, and the exportation of crude oil fuel the Villavicencio economy. Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated Ungulates a member of the Subfamily Bovinae of the family Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture Petroleum ( L petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit Beer and soap are manufactured in Villavicencio. Beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed Alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea SOAP (see below for name and origins is a protocol for exchanging XML -based messages over Computer networks normally using Imports from the surrounding area include coffee, bananas, and rice. CoFFEE is an Open source Software for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL in a digital classroom For the fruit see Banana. For other meanings see Banana (disambiguation. Rice is a Cereal foodstuff which forms an important part of the diet of many people worldwide and as such it is a staple food for many
Sports
The city has a football (soccer) team, the Centauros Villavicencio which plays in Colombia's second division. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Corporación Deportiva Centauros Villavicencio, is a Colombian football club based in the city of Villavicencio. and the service of prepagos
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