Department of Cundinamarca ( Departamento de Cundinamarca , Spanish pronunciation: [kundinaˈmaɾka] ) is one of the departments of Colombia . Its area covers 22,623 square kilometres (8,735 sq mi) (not including the Capital District) and it has a population of 2,919,060 as of 2018. It was created on August 5, 1886, under the constitutional terms presented on the same year. Cundinamarca is located in the center of Colombia.
7-515: Western Savanna Province is one of the 15 provinces in the Cundinamarca Department , Colombia . The Western Savanna province is subdivided into 8 municipalities: This Cundinamarca Department location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cundinamarca Department Cundinamarca's capital city is Bogotá , the capital of Colombia. This is a special case among Colombian departments, since Bogotá
14-649: Is a department of Colombia named after Colombian patriotic figure Francisco José de Caldas . It is part of the Paisa Region and its capital is Manizales . The population of Caldas is 998,255, and its area is 7,291 km . Caldas is also part of the Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis region along with the Risaralda and Quindio departments, which were politically separated from Caldas in 1966. Caldas has 6 districts. The Miel I Dam
21-430: 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
28-730: 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 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
35-596: 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,
42-1842: 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 Caldas Department Caldas ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaldas] )
49-530: 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
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