Ibagué (col)

Ibagué

Ibagué ranks 17,223rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Murnau am Staffelsee, Ardino, and Château de Chantilly. The most famous people from Ibagué are Gabriel París Gordillo, and Cristina Umaña. The most famous people who died in Ibagué are Jorge Isaacs. Ibagué has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many writers. Ibagué is located in Colombia.

Ibagué is the capital of Tolima, one of the 32 departments that make up the Republic of Colombia. The city is located in the center of the country, on the central mountain range of the Colombian Andes, near Nevado del Tolima. It is one of the most populous cities in the country, with a population of 500 thousand people approximately, making it the eleventh most populous in Colombia, and with a population of 544,132 in the municipality. It was founded on 14 October 1550, by the Spanish captain Andrés López de Galarza. The city of Ibagué is divided into 13 communes and the rural area has 17 corregimientos. As the capital of the department of Tolima the city hosts the Government of Tolima, the Departmental Assembly, and the Attorney General's Office. It is the main epicenter of political, economic, administrative, business, art, culture, and tourism activities in the area. Read more on Wikipedia