Brief history of Santa Marta Historical sights

     Santa Marta has a rich history that, like most american regions, starts with a native culture that we know little to none about that was conquered by a european country. In this case the natives were called the Tairona and although they mainly worked in agriculture, there's also evidence that they processed and sold salt. 

The now known city of Santa Marta was conquered on July 29, 1525 by Spanish conquistador Rodrigo de Bastidas. This city is the oldest remaining city in Colombia and the second oldest in south america.

Santa Marta gained its independence along with all of Colombia on July 20, 1810. Well most of the regions didn’t begin to declare independence until 1811. The first date is considered as the independence day as it was the day of the uprising in Bogota, Colombia. 

The native people have pretty much been eradicated from Santa Marta some of them fled up into the mountains which protected them for a little bit but then the culture and the religion and languages are dead. Today the only language spoke in Santa Marta is Spanish. Since the Tairona people and their cultures have been raised there’s really no nothing left of them except for a few statues in their honor along the coast.

Historical sites to visit are mostly churches or the homes of post-columbus historical figures. There is a place calles "La cuidad Perdida" which means the lost city. It is the ruins of a Tairona city.

Food from the natives that survived him things like arepas. Although they have been they have grown and changed with the years for example things like arepas de huevo. It’s actually really interesting Venezuela and Colombia are always fighting over who invented the Aretha but in reality it was a native tribe that never cared or never even knew about the border of Columbia in Venezuela. Any of the traditions or festivals that they hold inside the Martha were things that were post Columbus that were created by the invaders.

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Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, Ph.D. - Assist. Professor in Anthropology, users.clas.ufl.edu/caycedo/taironakogi.html.

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Plan Santa Marta 2025, web.archive.org/web/20071021195502/cids.unimagdalena.edu.co/plansantamarta2025/LaCiudad.htm.