Ubaté Province is one of the 15 provinces in the Cundinamarca Department , Colombia .
9-425: The name Ubaté comes from the native name "Ebate" meaning "Bloodied land" or "Sower of the mouth". The Ubaté Province is subdivided into 10 municipalities: This Cundinamarca Department location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cundinamarca Department Department of Cundinamarca ( Departamento de Cundinamarca , Spanish pronunciation: [kundinaˈmaɾka] )
18-610: Is Barranquilla with a population of 1,327,209. Soledad and Malambo are also significant population centers within Atlántico, constituting integral parts of the Barranquilla metropolitan area. The University of Atlántico , with 22,790 students in 2021, stands as the largest higher education institution by student population in the department. In September 2023, the University of the Coast
27-726: Is a department of Colombia , located in northern Colombia with the Caribbean Sea to its north, the Bolívar Department to its west and south separated by the Canal del Dique , and the Magdalena Department to its east separated by the Magdalena River . Despite being the third smallest in the country, the department is among the most densely populated, with a population of 2,535,517. The department's capital and most-populous city
36-776: 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 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
45-430: 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
54-517: 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,
63-467: 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. Cundinamarca's capital city is Bogotá , the capital of Colombia. This
72-1851: 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 Atl%C3%A1ntico Department Atlántico ( Spanish pronunciation: [aðˈlantiko] , English: Atlantic )
81-524: 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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