On Apr 9th, 1948 inward Colombia, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, the Liberal leader as well as presidential candidate, was assassinated inward Bogotá. In reply to the assassination massive riots broke out inward the city. The riots of Apr ninth left 3,000 to 5,000 dead as well as thousands injured, alongside much of downtown Bogotá destroyed.
The History of Bogatazo is a storey map which recounts the assassination of Gaitán as well as the resulting uprising inward Bogotá. To progress through the mapped narrative y'all tin click on the timeline command running along the bottom of the map. The buttons on the timeline demo the fourth dimension of each mapped event.
The impressive visual aesthetic of this map is created through the purpose of the custom vintage styling of the map tiles as well as the careful attending to especial inward the map markers, timeline icons as well as the decorative corner images.
As y'all progress through the timeline the map automatically updates to demo the of import events of the day, alongside photos as well as text explaining each mapped event. The map is available inward both English linguistic communication as well as Castilian versions.
