Cundinamarca

Cundinamarca Spaingie pronunciation: [kundinaˈmarka]) is ane o the depairtments o Colombie. Its aurie covers 24.210 km,² an it haes a population o 2,280,037. It wis creatit on 5 August 1886 unner the constitutional terms presentit on the same year. Cundinamarca is locatit in the centre o Colombie an its caipital is Bogotá.

Cundinamarca Depairtment Departamento de Cundinamarca
Depairtment
Banner Coat airms
Motto(s):  Cundinamarca Corazón de Colombia (Spainyie: Cundinamarca, Hert o Colombie)
Anthem: Himno de Cundinamarca
Cundinamarca an Bogotá D.C. are shown in red
Coordinates: 4°36′N 74°5′W
Kintra	Colombie
Region	Andean Region
Established	15 Juin 1857
Caipital	Bogotá
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Andrés Gonzales (Colombie Leeberal Pairty)
Area
• Total	24210 km2 (9,350 sq mi)
Area rank	17
Population  (2005)
• Total	2,228,478
• Rank	4
• Density	92/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-05
ISO 3166 code	CO-CUN
Provinces	15
Website	www.cundinamarca.gov.co

Oreegin o the name

The name o Cundinamarca comes frae kundur marqa, an indigenous expression, probably derivit frae Quechua. Meanin "condor's nest", it wis uised in pre-Columbie times bi the natives o the Magdalena Valley tae refer tae the nearbi heichlands.

Geografie

Maist o Cundinamarca is on the Eastern Cordillera (Cordillera Oriental), juist sooth o Boyacá, bordered bi the Magdalena River on the wast, reachin doun intae the Orinoco River basin on the east, an borderin on Tolima tae the sooth. The caipital destrict o Bogotá is nearly completely surroondit bi Cundinamarca territory an wis formit bi carvin up Cundinamarca; atween this an ither diveesions, the present depairtment o Cundinamarca is hintle smawer than the oreeginal state.

The caipital o Cundinamarca is Bogotá. This is a special case amang Colombie depairtments, syne Bogotá is no legally a pairt o Cundinamarca, yet it is the anerlie depairtment that heas its caipital designatit bi the Constitution (if the caipital wis tae be iver muivit, it wad tak a constitutional reform tae dae sae, insteid o a semple ordinance passed bi the Cundinamarca Assembly). In censuses, the populations for Bogotá an Cundinamarca are tabulatit separately; itherwise, Cundinamarca's population wad tot 9.5 million.

Entity	Population	Aurie (km²)	Densitie
Cundinamarca (excludin D.C.)	2,349,578	22,623	104
Bogotá D.C.	7,881,156	1,587	4,485
Cundinamarca plus Bogotá	10,230,734	24,210	391

Demography an ethnography

Municipalities wi ower 50.000 inhabitants

Municipal population position

• 1st Bogotá 6.776.009
• 2nt Soacha 398.295
• 3rd Fusagasugá 107.259
• 4t Facatativá 106.067
• 5t Zipaquirá 100.038
• 6t Chía 97.444
• 7t Girardot 95.496
• 8t Mosquera 63.584
• 9t Madrid 61.599
• 10t Funza 60.571

Accordin tae the latest census conductit in 2005, 2,280,037 fowk live in Cundinamarca, excludin 6,776,009 o the caipital, Bogotá. The racial makup is:

• Mestizos an whites (96.28-33%): Mestizos are mixed European-Amerindie bluid. The Bogotá metropolitan aurie haes a history o European (no limitit tae Spainyie) an ither Laitin American immigration.
• Blacks or Afro-Colombies (3.33-37%)
• Indigenous/Amerindies (0.31-34%): Vera law percentage.
• Roma (Gitanos or Gypsies) (0.01%).
• East Asies (0.01%), aften o Cheenese strynd. Aboot 25,000 Cheenese-Colombies live in the depairtment.

The ceety o Bogotá an the municipalities o Soacha, La Calera, Cota, Chia, Madrid, Funza, Mosquera, Fusagasugá, Facatativá an Zipaquirá form a single metropolitan aurie. It is the maist populous depairtment wi 8 million indwallers an average densitie o 7,400 indwallers per km², ane o the heichest in the warld.

Important ceeties

Cundinamarca is made up o 126 municipalities, seiven o which recordit a population o ower 100,000 an coud be considered as ceeties: Bogotá, Soacha, Fusagasugá, Girardot, Facatativá, Zipaquirá an Chia, while Bogota is in the category o caipital.

Provinces

Cundinamarca haes 15 provinces an the Caipital Destrict o Bogotá (Bogotá D.C.), which simultaneously acts as caipital o the Republic, caipital o the Depairtment an a Destrict (or Depairtment) in itsel.

1. Almeidas
2. Upper Magdalena (Alto Magdalena)
3. Lower Magdalena (Bajo Magdalena)
4. Gualivá
5. Guavio
6. Central Magdalena (Magdalena Centro)
7. Medina
8. Eastren (Oriente)
9. Rionegro
10. Central Savanna (Sabana Centro)
11. Wastren Savanna (Sabana Occidente)
12. Soacha
13. Sumapaz
14. Tequendama
15. Ubaté

Freemit airtins

• Travel guide tae Cundinamarca frae Wikivoyage

See an aw

• Postage stamps o Cundinamarca