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.
7-530: Rionegro Province is one of the 15 provinces in the Cundinamarca Department , in Colombia . 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 is not legally a part of Cundinamarca , yet it
14-463: Is a department of Colombia . Located in the Amazonas region , Caquetá borders with the departments of Cauca and Huila to the west, the department of Meta to the north, the department of Guaviare to the northeast, the department of Vaupés to the east, the departments of Amazonas and Putumayo to the south covering a total area of 88,965 km², the third largest in the country . Its capital
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
28-574: 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,
35-668: 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
42-1832: 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 Caquet%C3%A1 Department Caquetá Department ( Spanish pronunciation: [kakeˈta] )
49-524: 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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