Santa Marta, Colombia

Colombia

Santa Marta, Colombia holds 152 connections with 2755 other places across 23 topics, with nature and history as the two dominant themes. When Spanish king Carlos V appointed a governor of Santa Marta in 1527, the city became a hub for colonial expansion into South America, linking it to Spain and Bogotá across governance and military topics. Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff moved his residency to Santa Marta in 1946 and ran the Instituto Etnologico del Magdalena, which he had founded in 1945, tying the city to Sierra Nevada indigenous archaeology.

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