Santa Marta Chat

Samarios, people who studied or work there, families spread between the old town and El Rodadero: this chat is for them, in Santa Marta, capital of Magdalena on Colombia’s Caribbean coast (not Santa Marta de Tormes, in Salamanca, Spain). The room is #santa_marta.

While #santa_marta fills up — nobody is there today — joining also opens #colombia, the national room, which is active around the clock.

Traditionally dated to Rodrigo de Bastidas’s founding on 29 July 1525, Santa Marta is Colombia’s oldest surviving city, and Simón Bolívar died at the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino in 1830. Behind it rises the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the world’s highest coastal mountain range, topped by the 5,775 m Pico Cristóbal Colón, and the district takes in Tayrona park and Ciudad Perdida. Colombia stays on UTC−5 all year. Nearby rooms: Barranquilla and Valledupar.