page_title: Bogotá savanna
section_title: Panoramas
hierarchical_section_title: Bogotá savanna / Panoramas
caption_attribution_description: Zipaquirá desde la casa de mi bisabuela.
context_page_description: The Bogotá savanna is a montane savanna, located in the southwestern part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the center of Colombia. The Bogotá savanna has an extent of 4,251.6 square kilometres and an average altitude of 2,550 metres. The savanna is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.
  The Bogotá savanna is crossed from northeast to southwest by the 375 kilometres long Bogotá River, which at the southwestern edge of the plateau forms the Tequendama Falls. Other rivers, such as the Subachoque, Bojacá, Fucha, Soacha and Tunjuelo Rivers, tributaries of the Bogotá River, form smaller valleys with very fertile soils dedicated to agriculture and cattle-breeding.
  Before the Spanish conquest of the Bogotá savanna, the area was inhabited by the indigenous Muisca, who formed a loose confederation of various caciques, named the Muisca Confederation. The Bogotá savanna, known as Bacatá, was ruled by the zipa. The people specialised in agriculture, the mining of emeralds, trade and especially the extraction of rock salt from rocks in Zipaquirá, Nemocón, Tausa and other areas on the Bogotá savanna.
caption: Zipaquirá
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