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It is the third statue of a Spanish discoverer that the natives tear down.

A small group of the Misak people, originally from the department of Cauca, in western Colombia, came to the center of the capital of the Republic to demolish the image of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

The founder of Santa Fe de Bogotá, as the city was called until the Senate removed the Catholic name, in June 2000 -

"due to the connotation of Spanish domination"

- and left only the native surname, presided over

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