Spanish Influence On Colombia

There is not enough information about the Indian tribes that lived in present day Colombia before the Spanish went there. The first European settlement that the Spanish founded in American mainland was in Colombia. Its name was Darien, the name being given in 1510. In 1538, the Spanish named the country New Granada, a name which was not changed until 1861.
Simon Bolivar, the Latin American revolutionary, defeated the Spanish in a long war of independence. After 14 years of battle, Bolivar won a great victory at the War of Boyacá, and Colombia became independent in 1824. Between 1819 and 1830 Bolivar united Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Panama and founded the Republic of Greater Colombia. The separatist movements took Venezuela and Ecuador