Usaquén

This guide to Usaquén's plaza in Bogotá follows the neighborhood's name back to the Muisca leaders known as usaque, and to the Dominican friars who built a chapel here in 1665. It traces how the parish came to honor Santa Bárbara, a saint associated with storms, and the beliefs the Muisca once held about the sky. Listen for the bells on her December feast day, still rung over the same plaza.