Even before the Spanish conquest, the western mountainous part of Colombia attracted the bulk of the population. The more advanced Indigenous cultures were found in this regi… 展开

European exploration of the Colombian coastline was accomplished by Rodrigo de Bastidas, who i… 展开

Establishment of the audiencia (an administrative and judicial tribunal) of Santafé de Bogotá in 1549 opened the colonial era. The conquerors had organized local governmen… 展开

The Viceroyalty of New Granada, which included present-day Colombia, Panama (after 1751), Venezuela, and Ecuador, was created in 1717–23 and reconstituted in 1740, opening a … 展开