Bogotá is the capital city of Colombia, located in the center of the country at an elevation of 2,640 meters. It has a population of over 6.7 million in the city and 7.8 million in the metropolitan area. Bogotá is the educational, cultural, commercial, administrative, financial, and political center of Colombia. The city's name comes from the Chibcha word "Bacatá," which was the territory of the indigenous tribes that originally inhabited the area before the arrival of the Spanish.
The evolutionoftransportionplanning in bogota_ver_eng_stuttgartNÉSTOR SÁENZ SAAVEDRA
Artículo presentado en un evento de ex-alumnos de la Universidad de Sttutgart en el año de 2010. Presenta una descripción sobre la evolución del transporte urbano de pasajeros en la ciudad de Bogotá-Colombia hasta el año 2010
During the second half of the twentieth century, Colombian society underwent a number of deep transformations in its population distribution, economy, and social behaviour. World events (war and economic movements) that had taken place during the previous decades made it necessary to introduce policies involving industrialisation, based on import substitution, an approach which was officially adopted into Colombian policies under the orientation and sponsorship of the Colombian Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL).
The evolutionoftransportionplanning in bogota_ver_eng_stuttgartNÉSTOR SÁENZ SAAVEDRA
Artículo presentado en un evento de ex-alumnos de la Universidad de Sttutgart en el año de 2010. Presenta una descripción sobre la evolución del transporte urbano de pasajeros en la ciudad de Bogotá-Colombia hasta el año 2010
During the second half of the twentieth century, Colombian society underwent a number of deep transformations in its population distribution, economy, and social behaviour. World events (war and economic movements) that had taken place during the previous decades made it necessary to introduce policies involving industrialisation, based on import substitution, an approach which was officially adopted into Colombian policies under the orientation and sponsorship of the Colombian Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL).
1. WELCOME TO
BOGOTÁ CITY
Prepárate
para una
gran
aventura por
Bogotá City.
“Descubre
cosas
asombrosas”
2. ¿HOW IS THIS CITY?
Bogota D.C. is the capital of Colombia, and
the capital of the department of
Cundinamarca.
Bogota is located in the center of the
country, 2,640 meters above sea level, on a
plateau of the Eastern mountain range of
The Andes.
Bogota is the educational, cultural, commercial,
administrative, financial, and political center
of Colombia.
The capital has approximately 6,776,000
inhabitants. The metropolitan area has a
population of 7,881,200, according to the
census made by DANE in 2005.
3. ABOUT THE NAME
Bogota's name comes from the Chibcha word Bacatá. Bacata was
the territory of the zipa (overlord) of the Chibcha or Muisca
Indian tribes that inhabited the region before the arrival of the
Spaniards. Gonzalo Jimenez of Quesada was the first European to
set foot in the lands of the Chibchas nation in 1538. He founded
the city of Santa Fe (today known as Bogotá D.C.) that became the
center of the government of the territory called the New Kingdom
of Granada, and where the Royal Court of Santa Fe was
established.
Later, the city adopted the name of Santafé de Bogotá. In 1945 it
became "Special District" and its official name was Bogotá D.E.
With the Constitution of 1991 the city was named Santafé de
Bogotá for the second time and received the status of Capital
District. In the year 2000 its name changed back to Bogotá D.C.
