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San Jerónimo, Antioquia
San Jerónimo is a municipality in Colombia, located in the Western subregion of the Department of Antioquia. Its main town is 35 kilometers from the city of Medellín, the capital of the department of Antioquia. The municipality has an area of 155 square kilometers (60 square miles). History The documentation about the history of San Jerónimo is fortunately very abundant, detailed, and reliable, as this is one of the historically most important municipalities in the department of Antioquia. Before the Spanish conquerors arrived in this region, broadly speaking, and particularly before reaching the neighboring valley of Ebéjico, it was populated by indigenous tribes of the Ebéjicos and Peques, both part of the Nutabes indigenous people. When the Spaniards arrived, they gave several names to the place, the first being San Juan del Pie de la Cuesta, which was changed only a year later to San Jerónimo de los Cedros, all this approximately between 1613 and 1616. San Juan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Colombia
The municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Colombia, Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia, with 1,104 municipality, municipalities (''municipios''). Each one of them is led by a mayor (''alcalde'') elected by popular vote and represents the maximum executive government official at a municipality level under the mandate of the governor of their department which is a representative of all municipalities in the department; municipalities are grouped to form departments. The municipalities of Colombia are also grouped in an association called the ''Federación Colombiana de Municipios'' (Colombian Federation of Municipalities), which functions as a union under the private law and under the Colombian Constitution of 1991, constitutional Freedom of association, right to free association to defend their common interests. Categories Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |