Cundinamarca

**Cundinamarca** ) is ane o the depairtments o Colombie. Its aurie covers 24.210&nbsp;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.

## 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

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## See an aw

* Postage stamps o Cundinamarca