Bosconia is a town and municipality in the
Colombian
Department of
Cesar Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol
* ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt
* César Award, a French film award
Places
* Cesar, Portugal
* Ces ...
.
Geography
The municipality of Bosconia is located in the northwestern part of the Cesar Department. Borders to the north with the municipality of
El Copey
El Copey is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Cesar Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol
* ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pa ...
, to the east with the municipality of
Valledupar
Valledupar () is a city and municipality in northeastern Colombia. It is the capital of Caesar Department. Its name, ''Valle de Upar'' (Valley of Upar), was established in honor of the Amerindian cacique who ruled the valley; ''Cacique Upar''. T ...
, to the south with the municipality of
El Paso
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the ...
and to the west with the
Magdalena Department separated only by the
Ariguaní River
Ariguaní River () is a river in northern Colombia's Caribbean Region born in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in the area of the municipality of Pueblo Bello. The Ariguaní is an affluent of the Cesar River and flows from north to ...
which is also a natural border and covering a total area of 609 km
2. The town of Bosconia is located in the central part of the municipality.
Climate
Average year temperature ranges 31 °C and has two rainy seasons intercalated with two dry seasons.
History
The town of Bosconia was founded on August 20, 1958, by Enrique Arón Ayén and Agustin Mackenzie in honor of
Catholic church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
priest
Saint John Bosco
John Melchior Bosco ( it, Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; pms, Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 181531 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco , was an Italian Catholic priest, educator, writer and saint of the 19th century.
While working ...
. The village became a train station stop for the farmers in the area. In 1979 Bosconia formally becomes a municipality of the Cesar Department. with the construction of paved highways the town of Bosconia became an intersection of two major transited Colombian highways that connect the northern Colombian departments of
La Guajira and Cesar with the rest of Colombia and the other one that connects the northeast and the rest of Colombia with the road to the
Caribbean sea
The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...
to
Santa Marta and
Barranquilla
Barranquilla () is the capital district of Atlántico Department in Colombia. It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port in the Caribbean Coast region; as of 2018 it had a population of 1,206,319, making it Col ...
. These two highways intersect in downtown Bosconia and is nowadays known as "Bosconia's T".
Politics
Administrative divisions
The municipality of Bosconia contains the urban area of the town of Bosconia and other small urban centers
Corregimientos
# Loma Colorada
Veredas
# El Edén
# La Fortuna
# Loma Linda
# Puerto Lajas
# Altos de Minas
# Boca de Tigre
# Tropezón
# Nueva Idea
# El Prado
References
External links
Bosconia official website
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Municipalities of Cesar Department
Populated places established in 1958
1958 establishments in Colombia