Cundinamarca

Cundinamarca ) 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.

 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)  DensitieCundinamarca (excludin D.C.)  2,349,578  22,623  104Bogotá D.C.  7,881,156  1,587  4,485Cundinamarca 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.

 Almeidas
 Upper Magdalena (Alto Magdalena)
 Lower Magdalena (Bajo Magdalena)
 Gualivá
 Guavio
 Central Magdalena (Magdalena Centro)
 Medina
 Eastren (Oriente)
 Rionegro
 Central Savanna (Sabana Centro)
 Wastren Savanna (Sabana Occidente)
 Soacha
 Sumapaz
 Tequendama
 Ubaté

 References 

 Freemit airtins 



 See an aw 

 Postage stamps o Cundinamarca


Category:Depairtments o Colombie
Category:States an territories established in 1857