San Gil
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Santander Department
Santander is a department of Colombia. Santander inherited the name of one of the nine original states of the United States of Colombia. It is located in the central northern part of the country, east of the Magdalena River, bordered to the south and southeast by Boyacá, to the northeast by Norte...
in northeastern Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
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Monuments
- Statue of Antonia Santos, one of the great figures of the Colombian Independence Struggle. This sculpture by Colombian artist Oscar Rodríguez NaranjoOscar Rodríguez NaranjoOscar Rodríguez Naranjo was a painter from Socorro, Santander Department, Colombia. His works include mainly oil paintings and sculptures.Rodríguez Naranjo studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Bogotá...
is located in the main park in San Gil.