Hotel Tequendama
Hotel Tequendama | |
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Location of Hotel Tequendama in Bogotá | |
General information | |
Status | In use |
Address | Carrera 10 #26-21 |
Town or city | Bogotá |
Country | Colombia |
Coordinates | 4°36′46″N 74°4′22″W / 4.61278°N 74.07278°WCoordinates: 4°36′46″N 74°4′22″W / 4.61278°N 74.07278°W |
Elevation | 2,598 metres (8,524 ft) |
Construction started | 1952 |
Completed | 1953 |
Inaugurated | 17 May 1953 |
Owner | Sercotel |
Height | 70 metres (230 ft) |
Designations | Hotel |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 573 |
Website | |
Official website |
The Hotel Tequendama & Centro de Convenciones (Convention Center) is a historic hotel located in the San Diego neighborhood of the town of Santa Fe in the city of Bogotá. It is located on tenth avenue with twenty-sixth avenue . Its construction took place between 1950 and 1951. Between 1967 and 1970 an expansion was carried out that doubled its capacity. It was designed by Holabird & Root, Jhon Burgee and the colombian architectural firm .
History[]
The Hotel Tequendama occupies the grounds where the San Diego cloister used to be raised, in which later the Superior School of War, the Military School and the Ministry of Defense. His property was the first building built in the Centro Internacional Tequendama complex. Its construction took place within the framework of the expansion of Tenth Avenue. In its beginnings it adjoined the Centennial Park. It is the tallest building built in the city in the 1950s.[1]
On May 17, 1953, it was inaugurated with a banquet attended by the President of Colombia, Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez. Between 1967 and 1970 an extension was carried out in the same style as that of the original building. In this it moved its main entrance to Tenth Avenue, the building was given a T-shaped plan, several conference rooms were added, and its capacity was doubled. For more than 50 years, Hotel Tequendama was managed by the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) for the InterContinental Hotels and Resorts brand, hence the name by which it was known until 2007 as Hotel InterContinental Tequendama. That year it was announced that it would switch to another brand of the Inter Continental Hotels Group (IHG), the Crowne Plaza brand, and it was renamed Hotel Crowne Plaza Tequendama.[2] Is considered a national monument in Bogotá.[3]
Etymology[]
Tequendama is a word derived from the Chibcha language of the Muisca, who inhabited the Bogotá savanna in the times before the Spanish conquest. It means "he who precipitates downward".[4]
Gallery[]
View of the hotel
Hotel view with TransMilenio bus
Hotel Tequendama to the left, Avenida Calle 26 and Monserrate in the background
Mural of the Muisca deities in the lobby of the hotel
See also[]
References[]
- ^ (in Spanish) El Hotel Tequendama de aniversario - El Tiempo
- ^ Fontana & Mayorga, 2008, p.99
- ^ (in Spanish) Edificios más altos de Colombia
- ^ (in Spanish) Etymology Tequendama
"In Bogota" - Joan Didion, _The White Album_
Bibliography[]
- De centro moderno a centralidad urbana: el conjunto Tequendama-Bavaria, 1950-1982 en Bogotá - From modern centre to urban centre: the Tequendama-Bavaria metropolitan area in Bogotá, 1950-1982, 56-75. Universidad de los Andes. Accessed 2016-08-22. , and . 2013.
- Sector 2 - Centro Internacional, 98-106. Accessed 2016-08-22. , and . 2008.
- Hotel Tequendama (1953-2009): un microcosmos de la Bogotá Cosmopolita (M.A.), 7-139. Universidad La Javeriana. Accessed 2016-08-22. . 2010.
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