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21-1023: Cundinamarca may refer to: Geography [ edit ] Cundinamarca Department (1886–present), Republic of Colombia Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca (1810–1815 Estado Libre e Independiente de Cundinamarca ) Cundinamarca Department (1820) , Gran Colombia roughly encompassing modern Colombia, Panama, and the Mosquito Coast Cundinamarca Department (1824) , Gran Colombia Cundinamarca Province (1851), Republic of New Granada Cundinamarca State (1857) [REDACTED] 1810 Prov. of Bogotá called itself State of Cundinamarca in 1813 [REDACTED] 1820 Department [REDACTED] 1824 Department [REDACTED] 1855 Province [REDACTED] 1858 State [REDACTED] 1863 State [REDACTED] 1886 Department Biology [ edit ] Cundinamarca (moth) Topics referred to by

42-493: A constitutional reform to do so, instead of a simple ordinance passed by the Cundinamarca Assembly). In censuses , the populations for Bogotá and Cundinamarca are tabulated separately; otherwise, Cundinamarca's population would total over 11 million. The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kuntur marqa , an indigenous expression, probably derived from Quechuan and means "condor's nest". Most of Cundinamarca

63-503: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cundinamarca Department Cundinamarca's capital city is Bogotá , the capital of Colombia. This is a special case among Colombian departments, since Bogotá is not legally a part of Cundinamarca , yet it is the only department that has its capital designated by the Constitution (if the capital were to be ever moved, it would take

84-430: Is made up of 116 municipalities, six of which recorded a population of over 100,000 and could be considered as cities: Soacha, Fusagasugá, Girardot, Facatativá, Zipaquirá and Chia, while Bogotá District is in the category of capital. Other major towns are Ubaté due to high livestock and dairy production. Guaduas, is an important cultural center. Chocontá and Fred are agricultural centers. Cundinamarca has 15 provinces and

105-596: Is on the Eastern Cordillera ( Cordillera Oriental ), just south of Boyacá , bordered by the Magdalena River on the west, reaching down into the Orinoco River basin on the east, and bordering on Tolima to the south. The capital district of Bogotá is nearly completely surrounded by Cundinamarca territory and was formed by carving up Cundinamarca. Because of this and other border changes,

126-484: Is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia , and the remnant of Boyacá State , one of the original nine states of the " United States of Colombia ". Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the mountains of the Eastern Cordillera to the border with Venezuela , although the western end of the department extends to the Magdalena River at the town of Puerto Boyacá . Boyacá borders to

147-434: Is shared with the department of Arauca. The flora and fauna sanctuary of Lake Iguaque is situated in the centre of the department. The most beautiful páramo in the world, Ocetá Páramo , is in northeast Boyacá. The central area of the highlands has two rainy seasons; the first between April and June, and a second between October and November with an average of 1,000 millimetres (39 in) of rainfall per year. The rest of

168-641: Is the city of Tunja . Boyacá is known as "The Land of Freedom" because this region was the scene of a series of battles which led to Colombia's independence from Spain . The first one took place on 25 July 1819 in the Pantano de Vargas and the final and decisive battle known as the Battle of Boyacá was fought on 7 August 1819 at Puente de Boyacá. Boyacá is home to three universities : the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC),

189-707: The Thousand Days War that struggled over a centralist or federalist system and political instability that changed to many constitutions (such as the Constitution of 1886), Boyaca finally acquired its current definition as territory. Boyacá is located in the Andean Region in central Colombia, over the Cordillera Oriental mountain range and covers a total area of 23,189 km . It borders other Colombian departments as follows: to

210-804: The Universidad de Boyacá (UNIBOYACA), and the Saint Thomas Aquinas University . The word Boyacá derived from the Chibcha word " Bojacá " which means "Near the cacique ", or "Region of the royal mantle". The territory of present-day Boyaca was during the Pre-Columbian time the domain of the Muisca indigenous peoples . The Muisca under the chiefdom of the zaque of Hunza lived mainly by agriculture and mining gold and emeralds . The first European to discover

231-1850: The Capital District (Bogotá), which simultaneously acts as capital of the Republic, capital of the Department and a separately administered District (or Department) in itself. The department is home to the basketball team Cóndores de Cundinamarca , which plays its home games in the Coliseo de la Luna in Chía . [REDACTED]   Amazonas [REDACTED]   Antioquia [REDACTED]   Arauca [REDACTED]   Atlántico [REDACTED]   Bolívar [REDACTED]   Boyacá [REDACTED]   Caldas [REDACTED]   Caquetá [REDACTED]   Casanare [REDACTED]   Cauca [REDACTED]   Cesar [REDACTED]   Chocó [REDACTED]   Córdoba [REDACTED]   Cundinamarca [REDACTED]   Guainía [REDACTED]   Guaviare [REDACTED]   Huila [REDACTED]   La Guajira [REDACTED]   Magdalena [REDACTED]   Meta [REDACTED]   Nariño [REDACTED]   N. Santander [REDACTED]   Putumayo [REDACTED]   Quindío [REDACTED]   Risaralda [REDACTED]   San Andrés [REDACTED]   Santander [REDACTED]   Sucre [REDACTED]   Tolima [REDACTED]   Valle del Cauca [REDACTED]   Vaupés [REDACTED]   Vichada Capital district: [REDACTED]   Bogotá Boyac%C3%A1 Department Boyacá ( Spanish pronunciation: [boʝaˈka] )

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252-496: The area was the Spaniard Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada who conquered the northern Muisca living in the area led by last zaque Aquiminzaque and distributed the land in encomiendas and forced the indigenous people to work for him. In 1539, Gonzalo Suárez Rendón , a Spanish conquistador , founded the city of Tunja and other sites where the indigenous people previously had their villages. Tunja became one of

273-725: The eastern Llanos plains. Among its most prominent geographical features are the Range of the Zorro , Serrania de las Quinchas and the Andean plateaus of Rusia , Guantivá , Pisba , Chontales and Rechiniga . The Altiplano Cundiboyacense , shared with the department of Cundinamarca , is densely populated with numerous valleys. The southern part is the Bogotá savanna . Boyacá is subdivided into 123 municipalities. Many rivers originate in Boyacá,

294-579: The main political and economic centers for the Spanish during the Viceroyalty of New Granada . During the 19th century, Boyacá was battleground for numerous confrontations between the royalist and patriot armies led by Simón Bolívar during the Spanish colonies' war of independence from Spain. Two of the most decisive battles were the Battle of Boyacá and the Battle of Vargas Swamp (1819) won by

315-551: The most important are the Chicamocha River and Arauca River and tributaries to other important rivers such as the Magdalena and Meta . Boyacá also has numerous lakes which include Lake Tota , Lake Sochagota and Lake Fúquene , shared with the department of Cundinamarca, the artificial Chivor Reservoir and others. El Cocuy and Pisba National Parks are located in the northeast of Boyacá. Pisba National Park

336-708: The north Santander and Norte de Santander , to the east Arauca and Casanare , to the south Cundinamarca and a small part of Meta , and to the west Antioquia and Caldas . It has a territorial dispute with Norte de Santander and Cundinamarca. The department of Boyacá covers a small portion of the Middle Magdalena valley of the Magdalena River to the west, the Cordillera Oriental mountain range with altitudes of 5,380 m above sea level ( Sierra Nevada del Cocuy with 25 snow peaks), flat highland plateaux, and another small portion of territory by

357-474: The north with the Department of Santander , to the northeast with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Norte de Santander , to the east with the departments of Arauca and Casanare . To the south, Boyacá borders the department of Cundinamarca and to the west with the Department of Antioquia covering a total area of 23,189 square kilometres (8,953 sq mi). The capital of Boyacá

378-692: The patriot forces against the royalists. In 1824 Gran Colombia created the Boyacá Department (Gran Colombia) . After the creation of the Granadine Confederation by 1858 the territory of now Boyaca became the Sovereign State of Boyacá . It was later rearranged in territory and administration and renamed as "Department of Boyaca" after a series of civil wars like the Colombian Civil War (1860–1862) and

399-530: The present department of Cundinamarca is much smaller than the original state. According to the latest census conducted in 2005, 2,280,037 people live in Cundinamarca, excluding 6,776,009 of the capital, Bogotá. The city of Bogotá and the municipalities of Soacha , La Calera , Cota , Chía , Madrid , Funza , Mosquera , Fusagasugá , Facatativá and Zipaquirá form a single metropolitan area. (1985) (1993) (2005) (2015)* (2020)* Cundinamarca

420-459: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cundinamarca . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cundinamarca&oldid=914636235 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

441-523: The year is considered to be the dry seasons with intermittent rainfall. There are 13 provinces and two special districts in the Boyacá Department, listed below with their 123 municipalities. The department also has 123 corregimientos , 185 police inspectorates and numerous towns and small villages spread throughout the territory. Municipalities are also grouped into 45 notary circuits with 53 notaries public. One circuit main registry based in

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