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Central Cemetery Of Valledupar
The Central Cemetery of Valledupar () is the oldest cemetery in the Colombian city of Valledupar, capital of the department of Cesar. It was founded in 1806 by order of lieutenant governor Andrés Pinto Cotrín and is located on the current Calle 15 between carreras 9 and 10, in the El Centro neighborhood of the city. Notable interments * Leandro Díaz (1928–2013), vallenato musical composer. * Rafael Escalona (1926–2009), Vallenato musical composer, winner of numerous awards and recognitions, is considered one of the best Vallenato composers, his biography inspired the making of a series and his name appears in One Hundred Years of Solitude. * Hernando Marín (1944–1999), vallenato songwriter. *Emiliano Zuleta (1912–2005), composer, accordionist and singer of Vallenato music.{{cite web, url=http://www.presidencia.gov.co/prensa_new/sne/2005/octubre/31/16312005.htm , title=“Vinimos a despedir al que nunca habrá de dejarnos”: Uribe , publisher=Presidencia de la Repúbli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 Departments of Colombia, departments. The Capital District of Bogotá is also the List of cities in Colombia by population, country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub. Other major urban areas include Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Colombia, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Villavicencio and Bucaramanga. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi) and has a population of around 52 million. Its rich cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valledupar
Valledupar () is a city and municipality in northeastern Colombia. It is the capital of Cesar Department. Its name, ''Valle de Upar'' (Valley of Upar), was established in honor of the Amerindian cacique who ruled the valley; ''Cacique Upar''. The city lies between the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá to the borders of the Guatapurí River, Guatapurí and Cesar River, Cesar rivers.Alcaldia Valledupar: Historia de Valledupar valledupar.gov.co Accessed 8 October 2006. Valledupar is an important agricultural, ranching, cattle raising, coal mining and agro-industrial center for the region between the Departments of Cesar and southern municipalities of La Guajira Department, formerly known as the Padilla Province. Valledupar is notable as the cradle of ''va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesar Department
Cesar Department (), or simply Cesar, () is a departments of Colombia, department of Colombia located in the north of the country in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, Caribbean region, bordering to the north with the Department of La Guajira, to the west with the Department of Magdalena and Department of Bolivar, to the south with Department of Santander, to the east with the Department of North Santander, and further to the east with the country of Venezuela (Zulia State). The department capital city is Valledupar. The region was first inhabited by indigenous peoples known as Euparis in the Valley of Upar and Guatapuris in the Valley of the Cesar river, among these were the Orejones pertaining to the Toupeh, Acanayutos pertaining to the Motilon people, Motilon and Alcoholades pertaining to the Chimila people, Chimila. The first European to explore the area was Spanish Captain Peter Vadillo, but German Ambrosio Alfínger, Ambrose Alfinger savagely conquered the region in 1532. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leandro Díaz (composer)
Leandro José Díaz Duarte (February 20, 1928 – June 22, 2013) was a Colombian vallenato music composer. He is mostly known for his ability to compose very descriptive and narrative vallenato songs despite his blindness. His songs have been recorded by many Colombian musicians including Carlos Vives, Diomedes Díaz, Jorge Oñate, Iván Villazón, among others. During the 38th version of the Vallenato Legend Festival, Diaz was proclaimed "King for Life of the Vallenato Legend Festival" along with Rafael Escalona, Emiliano Zuleta Baquero, Calixto Ochoa, Adolfo Pacheco and Tobías Enrique Pumarejo. Early years Díaz was born in a farm named "''La Casa de Alto Pino''" in the locality known as Lagunita de la Sierra then corregimiento of Hatonuevo in the Commissary of La Guajira which in 1928 pertained to the municipality of Barrancas. Díaz was born blind but that was not an impediment for him to develop a sense of the world he could not see. His parents took him to the Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallenato
Vallenato () is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing this name is located between the ''Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta'' and the '' Serranía de Perijá'' in north-east Colombia. The name also applies to the people from the city where this genre originated: Valledupar (from the place named ''Valle de Upar'' – "Valley of Upar"). In 2006, vallenato and cumbia were added as a category in the Latin Grammy Awards. Colombia's traditional vallenato music is Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, according to UNESCO. Origins This form of music originated from farmers who, keeping a tradition of Spanish minstrels (''juglares'' in Spanish), used to travel through the region with their cattle in search of pastures or to sell them in cattle fairs. Because they traveled from town to town and the region lacked rapid communications, these farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Escalona
Rafael Calixto Escalona Martinez (May 26, 1926 – May 13, 2009) was a Colombian composer and troubadour. He was known for being one of the most prominent vallenato music composers and troubadours of the genre and for being the co-founder of the Vallenato Legend Festival, along with Consuelo Araújo and Alfonso López Michelsen. He was also a long-time friend of Gabriel García Márquez, who included him in his stories and once told him that his own masterpiece novel, ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'', was just a 350-page Vallenato. Escalona's songs compile the history and stories of the Magdalena Department of the past 20th century. Escalona was an atypical music composer: he does not play any instruments or sing so his songs can in some ways be difficult to analyze. His songs constitute a legacy of a past generation of Colombians in his memory, a pictorial collage, full of grace, that narrates stories, customs and gossips from his region. He also left a legacy of his loves and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' (, ) is a 1967 in literature, 1967 novel by Colombian people, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the Family saga, multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. It was recognized as one of the most important works of the Spanish language during the 4th International Conference of the Spanish Language held in Cartagena, Colombia, Cartagena de Indias in March 2007. The Magic Realism, magical realist style and thematic substance of the book established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was Style (fiction), stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Cuban art#Vanguardia artists, ''Vanguardia'' (Avant-Garde) literary movement. Since it was first published in May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando Marín
Hernando José Marín Lacouture (1944–1999) was a Colombian vallenato songwriter and musician. His songs have been recorded by artists including Diomedes Díaz, Binomio de Oro, and Los Hermanos Zuleta. Biography Marín was born on 1 September 1944 in El Tablazo, a village in San Juan del Cesar in the Colombian department of La Guajira. In 1974 Marín was taken by folklorist José Parodi to the Festival del Fique, where he won the unpublished song competition with his composition "Vallenato y Guajiro". In 1992 he won the unpublished song competition of the Vallenato Legend Festival with "Valledupar del Alma". Marín composed several successful vallento songs that were recorded by artists including Diomedes Díaz, Binomio de Oro, and Los Hermanos Zuleta. He was particularly known for his skill at writing both romantic and political protest songs; Marcos Fidel Vega Seña described him as "the first and greatest model of the romantic guajira song and protest voice in vallenat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Tiempo (Colombia)
''El Tiempo'' () is a nationally distributed broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia launched on January 30, 1911. , ''El Tiempo'' had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers, rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition. From 1913 to 2007, ''El Tiempos main shareholders were members of the Santos family. Several also participated in Colombian politics: Eduardo Santos Montejo was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942. Francisco Santos Calderón served as Vice-President (2002–2010). And Juan Manuel Santos as Defense Minister (2006–2009) during Álvaro Uribe's administration; Juan Manuel was elected president of Colombia in 2010 and served in that position until 2018. In 2007, Spanish Grupo Planeta acquired 55% of the ''Casa Editorial El Tiempo'' media group, including the newspaper and its associated TV channel Citytv Bogotá. In 2012, businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo bought the shares of Planeta, the Santo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emiliano Zuleta
Emiliano Antonio Zuleta Baquero (1912–2005) was a Colombian vallenato songwriter, accordion player and singer, popularly known as ''El Viejo Mile'' (The Old Mile). Around 1938 he wrote "La Gota Fría", a song that emerged from a piqueria vallenata, piqueria with and that years later was recorded by Carlos Vives, turning the song into an international hit. Biography Zuleta was born on January 11, 1912, in La Jagua del Pilar (then called La Jagua del Pedregal), a small town in La Guajira Department, La Guajira, Colombia. His parents were Cristóbal Zuleta Bermúdez, a guitarist and singer, and Sara María Baquero. Zuleta's mother was known in the vallenato community as "la vieja Sara", and is referenced by name in several vallenato songs. As a teenager Zuleta learned to play caja vallenata, caja and gaita flutes, gaita with Cayetano Atencio. At the age of 15 he stole an accordion from his uncle Francisco Salas and taught himself to play. The inaugural accordionist competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries In Colombia
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek language, Greek ) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Ancient Rome, Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, a columbarium, a niche, or another edifice. In Western world, Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to culture, cultural practices and religion, religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
