Cartagena one of the Most Beautiful City in the World

Cartagena de Indias, is announced to be the position of stopping the people, like Mohammad Nazaruddin (fugitive Indonesian corruption) from a resort on the Caribbean coast on the northern coast of Colombia. The city has a population of 892nd 545 at the 2005 census, making it the fifth - largest city in Colombia to form and urban areas in the region ', s fifth-largest urban area in Colombia. Cartagena was the center of economic life in the Caribbean, as well as a popular tourist destination. According to the Wikipedia site, the former Spanish colony, this city has a key role in the development of the region during the Spanish era, was the center of the political and economic life because of the royal and wealthy caliphs. 1984, the walled colonial city of Cartagena and the forts, which are designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cartagena was the first Founded in June 1533 by the Spanish commander Pedro de Heredia on the site of the former village of the indigenous Caribbean Calamari. The city is named after Cartagena, Spain, where most of the sailors Heredia Cartagena is a major trading port, especially for precious metals. Gold and silver from the mines in New Granada and Peru in Cartagena invited to the galleons to Spain via Havana. Cartagena is a port in the past for the African slave trade. The first slaves were transported by Pedro de Heredia and used as a cane cutter to open the way, as a worker, to destroy the grave of the natives of the nerve, and to construct buildings and reinforcements. The agent sold the company Cacheu Portuguese slave from Cartagena to the mines in Venezuela, the Antilles, to work Nuevoreino de Granada and the Viceroyalty of Peru. For over 275 years was under the Spanish Directive Cartagena. On 11 November 1811 Cartagena declared its independence. Cartagena is the Caribbean Sea towards the west. To the south is the Cartagena Bay, which has two entrances: Boca Chica (small mouth) in the south and Boca Grande (Big Mouth) in the north. Cartagena is located at 10 ° 25 'North, 75 ° 32' West (10, 41 667, -75, 5333). 1 In contrast to Havana is Santo Domingo, Kingston and San Juan, Cartagena de Indias rarely touched by the storm. The city is in the Caribbean, the mainland is quite the further south and located it on the wind power from other areas. Between 1930 and 1970, the city has a very large population increases at a rate higher than the national average shows and higher than that of Bogota, which boomed mainly because of internal displacement and the opportunity is hoping to work while centralization increases. 1970 walkers have flooded over, but population growth since the eighties, currently with a mixture of port infrastructure, privatization and decentralization of tourism, the city of Cartagena show an increasing population trend was dramatically caught in the middle and 80 at
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