Avenida Jiménez is a thoroughfare that runs through the locality of
La Candelaria
La Candelaria is the 17th locality of Bogotá, Colombia. A historic neighborhood in the city's downtown, it is the equivalent to the ''Old City'' in other cities. The architecture of the old houses, churches and buildings has Spanish Colonial styl ...
in
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
, Colombia. Laid out on the
San Francisco River, the Environmental Axis of the city is currently established there.
It extends over from
Teleférico de Monserrate
The Teleférico de Monserrate is a tourist cable car that connects Bogotá with the Monserrate hill.
History
The cable car to Monserrate was built to provide service to the increasing number of parishioners who ascended to the Basilica ...
to
Monserrate
Monserrate (named after Catalan homonym mountain ''Montserrat'') is a high mountain over 10,000 feet high that dominates the city center of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. It rises to above the sea level, where there is a church (built in ...
,
taking the source of the environmental axis in Carrera 1.ª, going down through the Iglesia de Las Aguas to Carrera 3ª, where it crosses the
Las Aguas TransMilenio
TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that serves Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and Soacha. The system opened to the public in December 2000, covering Avenida Caracas, Caracas Avenue and 80 street. Other lines were added gradually ...
station, crossing the city center to the west, to
Avenida Caracas
Avenida Caracas is an arterial road in Bogotá, Colombia that runs through the city from north to south.
Names
The road has four names along its stretch: ''Avenida Caracas'', ''Troncal Caracas'', ''Carrera 14'', and ''Carretera a Usme''.
Rou ...
, where it becomes Avenida Centenario.
History
During the first years of its foundation, the city of Bogotá established the Vicachá river as its northern limit, a
Chibcha
The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan langu ...
indigenous denomination that means "The glow of the night" , which was later called San Francisco due to the establishment of the
Franciscan
The Franciscans are a group of related Mendicant orders, mendicant Christianity, Christian Catholic religious order, religious orders within the Catholic Church. Founded in 1209 by Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi, these orders include t ...
convent and the
Church of San Francisco on its right bank on the "Camino de la Sal" in 1550.
Currently the Church of San Francisco is the oldest church in Bogotá. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the ronda del río was the boundary between the parishes of
San Pedro, Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves and San Victorino.
Bridges
In 1551, the first bridge over the San Francisco River was built , known as the San Miguel Bridge, which connected the Church of San Francisco with the rest of the city; This bridge was a wooden construction that was made during the government of the oidor Juan de Montaño. Unfortunately after a few years it would be destroyed by the river bed, for which reason in 1602, a new stone bridge was built.
As the city grew, new bridges were built over it.
[Escovar, Alberto; Mariño, Margarita; Peña Iguavita, César (2004), pp.254-257]
References
External links
{{Commonscat, Avenida Jiménez
Streets in Bogotá