Los Mártires (Spanish for "The Martyrs") is the 14th locality of Bogotá , capital of Colombia . It is located near the city's downtown to its west. This district is mostly inhabited by lower middle and working class residents. It takes its name in honor of those who died during the war for independence from Spain . It is completely urbanized, save for its parks and the banks of its rivers.
4-751: The Fucha River runs through the locality. Los Mártires is relatively flat due to its location on the Bogotá savanna . It slopes slightly upward to the west. The locality is served by the Avenida Caracas and Calle 13 lines of the TransMilenio system, including the Avenida Jiménez transfer station. In the area that is now Los Mártires Park Policarpa Salavarrieta , María Antonia Santos Plata , Mercedes Ábrego , Camilo Torres Tenorio , and Antonio José de Caldas died. In 1850, an obelisk
8-735: The Colombian capital Bogotá and flows westward through the city into the Bogotá River. It is one of the three important rivers of the city, together with the Tunjuelo and Juan Amarillo Rivers . Fucha is derived from Muysccubun , the indigenous language of the Muisca , who inhabited the Bogotá savanna before the Spanish conquest and means "her" or "female". The Fucha River originates in
12-536: The locality San Cristóbal in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá and is named in its upper course Quebrada Manzanares, San Cristóbal , Arzobispo and San Francisco River . It flows north from the Tunjuelo River westward and respectively forms the boundary between the localities Rafael Uribe Uribe (south) and Antonio Nariño (north) and Tunjuelito and Ciudad Bolivar (south) and Kennedy (north) of
16-464: Was erected in their memory. The following neighborhoods form part of the locality: Santa Isabel, Ciudad Montes, Eduardo Santos and Paloquemao This Colombian location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fucha River The Fucha River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a left tributary of the Bogotá River . The river originates in the Eastern Hills of
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