Official name	Urumita
Nickname	"The Garden of La Guajira" ()
Image seal	Coat of arms of Urumita.png
Map caption	Location of the town and municipality of Urumita in the Department of La Guajira.
Subdivision type	Country
Subdivision type1	Region
Subdivision type2	Department
Subdivision name	Colombia
Subdivision name1	Caribbean
Subdivision name2	La Guajira
Leader title	Mayor
Leader name	Eunice Murgas Saurith (L)
Established title	Foundation
Established date	October 3, 1785 by Juan Bautista Canalete
Area total km2	329
Population as of	2005
Population note
Population total	8545
Utc offset	-5
Elevation m	255
Website	urumita-guajira.gov.co/
Footnotes	*

Urumita is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of La Guajira.

Geography

The municipality of Urumita is located on the Serrania del Perija mountain range with part of its territory covering the valley of the Cesar River towards the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range. The municipality seat of Urumita is however located on a flat area some 45 km away from the capital of the Department of Cesar, Valledupar and some 175 km from the capital city of the Department of La Guajira, Riohacha.

Urumita limits to the north with the municipality of Villanueva in a 36 km borderline; to the south with the municipality of La Jagua del Pilar sharing approximately 50 km; to the east with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, sharing 10 km; and to the west with the municipality of Valledupar sharing 15 km covering a total area of 329 km².

History

Prior to the arrival of the Spanish colonizers the area of Urumita was inhabied by indigenous peoples pertaining to the Chimilas. At the time of the Spanish arrival in the early 16th Century, the area was governed by a Cacique named Uruma. After a period of conquest and colonization by the Spanish, on October 3, 1785 Juan Bautista Canalete founded the village of Urumita. The village became part of the jurisdiction of the municipality of Villanueva within the Government of Santa Marta. It was later made part of the Province of Padilla.

In 1972 Urumita became an autonomous corregimiento by Ordinance 043 of 1971 until 1978 when the Urumita was segregated from the municipality of Villanueva and became a relative status by Ordinance 016 of the same year. In 1982 the previous ordinance of 1978 is reconfirmed by ordinance 036 of 1982 rectifying the limits with Villanueva.

References

External links

Urumita official website Gobernacion de La Guajira - Urumita

Category:Municipalities of Guajira Category:Populated places in the Guajira Department

Name	Silvestre Dangond
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Silvestre Francisco Dangond Corrales
Alias	Silvestrong
Born	May 12, 1980
Height	5' 8" (175 cms)
Origin	Urumita, La Guajira, Colombia
Instruments	Singing/timbales
Genre	Vallenato, Latin
Occupation(s)	singer
Years active	2001–Present
Label	Sony Music
Related acts	Peter Manjarrez, Kaleth Morales
Url	www.silvestredangond.com
Current members	Juancho De la Espriella

Silvestre Francisco Dangond Corrales aka Silvestrong (Born May 12, 1980 in Urumita, La Guajira) is a Colombian Vallenato singer, composer and Timbales player. Dangond is considered one of the mainstream representatives of the "new wave" of vallenato musicians.

Biography

Early years

alias (silvestron el papa)Dangond grew up back and forward between his birthplace Urumita and Valledupar, but mostly in this last one, where his parents moved when he was just a year old to Valledupar due to financial hardships. As a curiosity Jorge Oñate was his Godparent. In Valledupar his parents enrolled him in the Jardín Nacional nursery school, later attended middle school at the Colegio Colombo-Ingles and high school at the Colegio Britanico, finally graduated from the Liceo del Caribe high school. During his Childhood Dangond also participated in many vallenato children festivals supported by his parents. specially his father, and had the opportunity at the age of 13 to record a song written by vallenato composer Octavio Daza.

Singing career

with Román López

After graduating from high school Dangond dedicated in full to music. He grouped with amateur accordion player Ramón López and after performing in some parties and gigs they recorded their first album in 2002 called "Tanto para tí" which included 12 songs; Nada te conmueve composed by Fabian Corrales, Necesito verte by Juan Manuel Perez, No te escondas mas by Felipe Pelaez, Mi encantadora egoista by Alberto Murgas, Quien me mando of his own authorship, Un amor tan grande by Freddy Carrillo, Muñeca de porcelana by Luis Alonso, Que no me roben tu corazón by Antonio Meriño, Lloraras un amor by Jaime Bayona, La flor mas linda by Armando Moscote, El extorcionista by Carlos Ramirez and Tanto para ti by Freddy Carrillo. It was during this time that he met his friend and also vallenato singer Kaleth Morales.

with Juancho De la Espriella

performing live on stage.]] By pure coincidence and through friend in common, manager and promoter Carlos Blum, Dangond officially met accordionist Juancho De la Espriella during a serenata (De la Espriella was grouped with singer Peter Manjarrez). Both of them knew who the other was but had never crossed words. Since that day they became good friends. Blum then convinced them to become a musical duo and arranged their first gig together at the Alfonso López Michelsen Building in a celebration of the Cesar Department foundation.

Lo mejor para los dos (The best for the two of us - Album)

Their musical union created great buzz within the vallenato critics and fans, and shortly they recorded their first album together named titled Lo mejor para los dos (2003) containing 13 tracks; La pinta chevere of Dangond's authorship, Nuestra vida by Jose Hernandez, Detalles y recuerdos by Enrique Carrascal, Mi amor por ella by Omar Geles, Ni en pintura by Dagoberto Osorio, El ring ring by Luis Alonso, Sabroso by Hernando Marin, Dejame quererte by Alejandro Sarmiento, No se, me equivoque by Rafael Manjarrez, La razon de mi vivir by Ivan Calderon, El chinchorrito by Alejo Duran, Me vuelve loquito by Josue Rodriguez and Lo mejor para los dos by Kaleth Morales. Dangond and De la Espriella performed in more than 250 shows through out 2003, most of them in December with 28 presentations.

Mas unidos que nunca (More united than ever - Album) performing.]] Their following album was Mas unidos que nunca, released on June 13, 2004 containing 14 songs which included one unplugged bonus track; Cautico mi canto of Dangond's authorship, El vaiven by Hernando Bustos, A blanco y negro by Omar Geles, La Colegiala of Dangond's authorship, Yo no me como ese cuento by Dagoberto Osorio, Acepto el reto by Luis Egurrola, Pa Barranquilla of Dangond's authorship, Me la juego toda by Kaleth Morales, Baila Vallenato by Leo Duran, La Mentira by Wilfran Castillo, Cuando llego en temple by Armando Romero, Celos y que by Luis Alonso, La mujer de mis sueños by Unknown author and La colegiala unplugged version. With this album Dangond and De la Espriella consolidated as one of the most successful vallenato groups in this genre thanks to the acceptance of their hit song La colegiala.

Ponte a la moda (Put up your style - Album)

In 2005 Dangond and De la Espriella released their third album together titled Ponte a la moda which also became a great success in Colombia and outside Colombia, especially within the Latin American community in the united States. The Album included the songs; Ahi viene ahi va of Dangond's authorship, Pa una mujer bonita by Omar Geles, Dile by Alberto Mercado, El tao tao by Lucho Perez, Mi seguidora y yo by Kaleth Morales, Esa mirada by Enrique Araujo, La pareja del momento by Jeiner Lopez, La misteriosa by Isaac Calvo, Ponte a la moda by Luis Alonso, Silvetre en Carnaval by Various artists, Una vez mas by Luis Egurrola, El enredo by Manuel Julian, Por ser machista of Dangond's authorship and La indiferencia (live unplugged) by Luis Alonso.

Discography

# Album Tanto para tí (2002) featuring accordionist Roman Lopez. # Album Lo Mejor Para Los Dos (2003) featuring accordionist Juancho De la Espriella. # Album Mas Unidos Que Nunca (2004) featuring accordionist Juancho De la Espriella. # Album Ponte A La Moda (2005) featuring accordionist Juancho De la Espriella. # Album La Fama (2006) featuring accordionist Juancho De la Espriella. # Album El Original (2008) featuring accordionist Juancho De la Espriella. #Album El Cantinero (2010) featuring accordionist Juancho De la Espriella

Family

Dangond is the son of amateur singer William José Dangond Baquero and Dellys Corrales Rojas and has one brother, Carlos Ivan. He is married to childhood sweetheart Pieri Avendaño and they have 2 children, Luis Jose and Silvestre Jose.

References

Silvestre Dangond official website

El Vallenato - Silvestre Dangond

El Vallenato - Silvestre Dangond y Juancho de la Espriella fueron los grandes triunfadores de los Premios Luna

El Heraldo: Gente Caribe - Silvestre DANGOND y Juan Mario DE LA ESPRIELLA, Más unidos que nunca

http://silvestristave.spaces.live.com/

Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:Vallenato musicians Category:Colombian singers Category:Valledupar Category:Spanish-language singers