Department of Santander
Santander, whose capital is Bucaramanga, is located in the northeastern part of the country, in the Andean region. It is one of the most important departments.
The department of Santander whose capital is Bucaramanga founded on December 22, 1622 by Andrés Páez de Sotomayor, is located in the northeastern part of the country, in the Andean region.
It borders to the north with Cesar and Norte de Santander, to the east and south with Boyacá, to the west with Antioquia and to the northwest with Bolívar.
Located between 5°42′ and 8°08′ of north latitude and 72°26 and 74°32′ of west longitude from Greenwich.
It owes its name to the independence hero of the New Granada, Francisco de Paula Santander.
IMPORTANT DATA
CAPITAL
BUCARAMANGA
POPULATION
2’090.854
GENTILICIO
SANTANDEREANO
SURFACE AREA
30.537 km²
GOVERNOR
Juvenal Díaz Mateus
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Map of the Department of Santander
Follows the municipalities of Santander located on the map:
Map by: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA
PROVINCES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SANTANDER
Santander is subdivided into 7 provinces:
- Comunera
- García Rovira
- Guanentá
- Yariguíes
- Soto
- Vélez
- Metropolitana
MUNICIPALITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SANTANDER
The department of Santander has 87 municipalities grouped in provinces in the following list:
Comunera
- Chima
- Confines
- Contratación
- El Guacamayo
- Galán
- Gambita
- Guadalupe
- Guapotá
- Hato
- Oiba
- Palmar
- Palmas del Socorro
- Santa Helena del Opón
- Simacota
- Socorro
- Suaita
García-Rovira
- Capitanejo
- Carpasí
- Cepitá
- Cerrito
- Concepción
- Enciso
- Guaca
- Macaravita
- Málaga
- Molagavita
- San Andres
- San José de Miranda
- San Miguel
Guanentá
- Aratoca
- Barichara
- Cabrera
- Coromoro
- Curití
- Charalá
- Encino
- Jordán
- Mogotes
- Ocamonte
- Onzaga
- Páramo
- Pinchote
- San Joaquín
- San Gil
- Valle de San José
- Villanueva
Soto Norte
- California
- Chata
- Matanza
- Suratá
- Tona
- Vetas
Veléz
- Aguada
- Albania
- Barbosa
- Bolivar
- Cimitarra
- El Peñón
- Chipatá
- Florián
- Guavatá
- Güepsa
- Jesús María
- La Belleza
- La Paz
- Landázuri
- Puente Nacional
- Puerto Parra
- San Benito
- Sucre
- Veléz
Yariguíes
- Barrancabermeja
- Betulia
- El Carmen de Chucurí
- Puerto Wilches
- Sabana de Torres
- San Vicente de Chucurí
Metropolitana
- Bucaramanga
- El Playón
- Floridablanca
- Girón
- Lebrija
- Los Santos
- Piedecuesta
- Rionegro
- Santa Bárbara
- Tona
- Zapatoca
HISTORY
This area was populated by Yariguies, Chitarrenos, Guanes, Lanches. The first Spanish to arrive there was Antonio de Lebrija in 1529.
The department was established as such on May 1, 1910 through Law 65 of 1909.
RELIEF
It is composed of transverse valleys, plateaus, and paramos in the eastern side and the Magdalena Valley, the department of Santander is crossed by the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes, also finding the paramos of La Rusia, Cachirí, Rico, of Almorzadero, of Santurbán on the border with Norte de Santander.
The Mesa de Jeremías and the Chicamocha Canyon.
HYDROGRAPHY
The most important rivers in the department of Santander are the Magdalena, Sogamoso, Opón, and Lebrija.
It also has beautiful lakes, including Montecristo, Rioviejo, San Antonio, Chucurí, San Vicente, and Yarirí.
CLIMATE
The department of Santander has a dry climate with an average temperature of 23°C
ECONOMY
Due to the rugged terrain, there are products from all climates such as cacao, tobacco, cotton, rice, sugarcane, pineapple, corn, wheat, and potato.
The department of Santander is one of the major oil producers and has a refinery in Barrancabermeja.
NATURAL RESERVES
In the department of Santander, we find rich natural reserves such as:
- Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
- Highway of the Fonce River
- Chicamocha Canyon
HIMNO
Lyrics: Pablo Rueda Arciniegas
Music: Jesús Pinzón Urrea
CHORUS
Santandereanos, always forward!
Santandereanos, not a step back!
Santandereanos, always forward!
Santandereanos, not a step back!
With courage as our banner
And freedom as our shield.
With courage as our banner,
And freedom as our shield.
We are ourselves the heirs
of the flags that from honor
yesterday planted the communeros
on this land, under this sun.
We are now the forgers
of a new world of peace and faith
where threads and loves are intertwined
and the plows with the laurel.
Audacious sons of proud heath
to which we love with frenzy
we are the race that fights and dreams
in the conquest of the future.
That's why, brave santandereanos,
always forward, not a step back!
Always arrogant, because we carry
in our blood the freedom!
in our blood the freedom!
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