Neighborhood Usaquen

In Bogota, there are many Neighborhoods known and famous for their touristic and economic activities, colonial buildings or their colonial zones, in this blog I elected Usaquen and Niza.

Usaquen is famous for their colonial buildings and their economic and touristic activities, with its famous Flea Market and it's country club with the golf playgrounds, actually today it's local mayor is Juan Pablo Camacho. Having 544.924 habitants, you can come here to see many interesting things that can tell you great history of Bogota, but what kind of history?

Usaquen's most important aspects are their touristic activities were you can see great part of the precolombian history. Usaquen was a Muisca village, when Spaniards arrived to America a great ranch was built in a part of the nowadays Usaquen's neighborhood known as the Santa Barbara's ranch and at time of the 20th century it was demolished and the part that is still there is known as the Santa Barbara ranch mall it was very huge and it is thought that the part that survived was a small piece of land.

 An special characteristic is that many people of other countries, even of other continents come to see the rich history which is in here, the Flea Market had always been very known for their articles were you can have articles of classical things and modern things.

 In the central park of the neighborhood you can find a church. This is a good place to come in family because there are some play zones, there are also delicious food restaurants, entertainment stores and some fountains, in my opinion it is a nice place to go on the afternoon, not at night because it's very cold.

It is a very good idea to visit neighborhoods not only for school jobs. It is always a very beautiful place to get to know more about your country. It is really important to take advantage of this opportunity and you get to know this places and have fun with them learning more about our country.

 

  

By: Nicolás Vivas 8B