sports

In San Francisco around the year 1938 was built the first place where people in Bucaramanga can practice sports and was named as Alfonso Lopez Stadium and by this year around San Francisco we had Great Buildings to practice many sports like the Vicente Diaz colliseum or the Bicentenario Colliseum and also we have many support from the industry like Freskaleche

About Bucaramanga

Bucaramanga is a city recognized nationally as a city of parks. Parks of Bucaramanga most recognized are:
The park las cigarras  behind the shopping center acropolis
The park of "child" which is located in the race 27 is also recognized his church called Virgen de Fatima located next to la casa municipal de la cultura
The park Sarrapios is one of oldest and it´s found in cabecera 

Park of the water: The company of the Aqueduct of the city has put in service a public park of an incomparable beauty. A work that returns to the inhabitants of Bucaramanga's Metropolitan area an area of recreation of 3.6 hectares, site known former as " The Tanks ".

Park of the Palms: It is one of the traditional parks of Bucaramanga's city, about there congregate some of the best coffees and restaurants of the city, it is a point of meeting of the community bumanguesa.

Park García Rovira: Located in full downtown. It owes his name to one of the heroes of the independence, and located in each of his sides they find the Government of Santander, Bucaramanga's Mayoralty, San Laureano's Parish, the Chapel of Dolores and the Civic Plaza Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento.

Park Antonia Santos: This park is important for the city for the beauty of his vegetation and because to one of his sides one finds the headquarters of the Municipal Archbishopric. The woman with whose name was baptized this beautiful site is one of the principal heroines of the fight for the independence of Colombia. 

Park Santander: Considered by many as the most important park of the city, for the historical and commercial meaning of the buildings that surround it. For one of his sides one finds the Cathedral of The Sacred Family, founded in the year of 1.887. For another side, we find the Hotel Bucarica, one of the national monuments. In another side the Club of the Trade is situated; important architectural piece of neoclassic style and center of meeting of the traditional elite bumanguesa. Finally, we find the modern International Center The Triad, which contains restaurants, service of hotel and offices of commercial exchange.

Cultural park of the East: It is catalogued as one of the lungs of the city, due to the great quantity and variety of trees and plants that they find inside him. It is the most new park that exists in Bucaramanga and his construction and administration is at the expense of the Company of Public Improvements. It is opened for the public every day and weekly diverse cultural activities are realized for the whole community.

Park of the Children: It is one of the more traditional centers of recreation of the city. There is placed on the career 27, one of the principal road arteries, and possesses several fields of basketball and field tennis. Near him, there are the headquarters of the Municipal Institute of Culture and The Clinic The Commoners, that it belongs to the Institute of Social Insurances.

Centenary park: There was construído for exhaltar the memory of Aquileo Parra, the only president santandereano that has had our country. It is surrounded by two historical monuments of the city: the Former College of Our Lady of Pilar and the Theatre Santander; important cultural center of the city.

Geographical position:

Bucaramanga is located on a sloping terrace of the Cordillera Oriental at 7 08 'north latitude with respect to the meridian of Bogota and 73 ° 08' longitude west ofGreenwich.

limits:

Bucaramanga, Santander department capital limits on the north by the municipality of Rionegro, on the East by the municipalities of Matanza, and Tona Charta, on the southby the municipality of Floridablanca and, on the west by the municipality of Girón.

General Information

iD:
Name of municipality: Municipality of Bucaramanga

NIT: NIT. 890201222-0
Dane Code: 68689
National: Bucaramanga
Other names the town has received:
Beautiful city of Colombia, the City of Parks.


Bucaramanga was founded by Father Miguel Trujillo and Captain Andres Paez deSotomayor, at noon on December 22, 1622.
Today, Bucaramanga is one of the most important cities in Colombia, with approximatelyone million inhabitants.

The reason Spanish called this region “Bucaramanga” is  Because of its shape and there were lots of trees called “Bucaros

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Mesa Santos