Cundinamarca Department (Departamento de Cundinamarca - Spanish pronunciation: [kundinaˈmarka]) is one of the departments of Colombia. Its area covers 24.210 km and has a population of 2,280,037. It was created on August, 5 of 1886 under the constitutional terms presented on the same year. Cundinamarca is located in the center of Colombia and its capital is Bogotá.
The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kundur marqa, an indigenous expression, probab...
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Cundinamarca Department (Departamento de Cundinamarca - Spanish pronunciation: [kundinaˈmarka]) is one of the departments of Colombia. Its area covers 24.210 km and has a population of 2,280,037. It was created on August, 5 of 1886 under the constitutional terms presented on the same year. Cundinamarca is located in the center of Colombia and its capital is Bogotá.
The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kundur marqa, an indigenous expression, probably derived from Quechua. Meaning "Condor's Nest", it was used in pre-Columbian times by the natives of the Magdalena Valley to refer to the nearby highlands.
Most of Cundinamarca 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 indeed was formed by carving up Cundinamarca; between this and...
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