Barbosa, Santander
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Barbosa, Santander | |
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Municipality and town | |
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 Location of the municipality and town of Barbosa, Santander in the Santander Department of Colombia. | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Department | Santander Department |
| Area | |
| 46.67 km2 (18.02 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 3.59 km2 (1.39 sq mi) |
| Population (2018 census)[2] | |
| 31,050 | |
| • Density | 665.3/km2 (1,723/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 23,249 |
| • Urban density | 6,480/km2 (16,800/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Barboseño -a |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time) |
| Climate | Af |
| Website | www.barbosa-santander.gov.co |
Barbosa is a town in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Municipality of the province of Vélez.
Called by the natives of the region as "The Golden Gate of Santander", being the second Santander municipality by the southern entrance of the department.
Founding Date: May 24, 1940
Founder's name: Heliodoro Barbosa
Barbosa called "Puerta de oro de Santander", its privileged geographical location, its colorful valley on the banks of the Suarez River, has allowed it to become the nerve center of an extensive region and the roads that converge in it have made it an obligatory one of the most powerful municipalities in the department.
His first embryo was the Center populated of Cite, today its corregimiento, founded by Martín Galeano the 24 of May 1539 (it is considered the first population founded in the department of Santander since Vélez was founded on July 3, 1539) and for many years it held the category of municipality, he first came to the legal life on October 1, 1939 precisely as a corregimiento attached to Our Lady of Cite, but its unusual development, especially caused by its rapid growth of business led to the Assembly of the department to approve ordinance No. 42 of June 21, 1940, turning it into a municipal seat.
Its name is a tribute to the Spanish general Heliodoro Barbosa, who fought relentlessly against the Ubazas Indians, settlers of the region and who are said to be the most accurate macana archery marksmen.
Conquest and colonization
The main original nuclei existing by the lands crossed by Martín Galeano are the following: Agataes, with Chipatá as head, and the clans and rancherios in Guavatá, Ubasá, Güepsa and some other points: Yariguíes or Lloriquíes, watered by the mountainous area that extends long behind Vélez to the north; the Guanes and Chanchones by the oriental margin of the Sarabita River and slopes of the Mochuelo or Fonce; and something more to the east the Chalalaes or Charalás. Neither one nor the other was concentrated in large populations. They were clans or family groups scattered here and there, with dialects and customs often dissimilar. For that reason Galeano and its people took a slip when they undertook their campaign, they thought to find great towns and a lot of gentility, at the end they only found a few groups and tough fighters.
