Riobamba years later away from its original location (near a village named Cajabamba on the plains of San Antonio de Aguíscate). The city still retains much architecture from the Spanish period. In the Ecuadorian War of Independence Riobamba first declared independence on November 11, 1820 but was soon retaken. The city finally became part of an independent Gran Colombia in 1822, and then a separate Republic of Ecuador in 1830. On 20 November 2002, 7 people were killed and hundreds wounded when an explosion in the munitions depot at the Galapagos Brigade arsenal in Riobamba set off a series of blasts.
Bank of the Republic (Colombia) for the best researchers in Economics (Lauchlin Currie Scholarship) and in Economic Law (Enrique Low Murtra Scholarship). The online presence of all the museum sites, plus an encyclopaedia, plus an online library, is called "Banrepcultural", a portmanteau for "Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia". It calls itself "the oldest virtual library in Latin America", and uses the domain banrepcultural.org Bank of the Republic (Colombia) The Banco de la República () is the central bank of the Republic of Colombia. Its main functions are detailed by the Congress according to the Ley 31 de 1992. One of them