Cundinamarca Department
Also known as Cundinamarca
department of Colombia
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Cundinamarca is a department, or administrative region, located in Colombia in South America. It is significant because it contains Colombia's capital city, Bogotá, making it a major political and economic center for the country.
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- Official website
- www.asamblea-cundinamarca.gov.co
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Cundinamarca ( Spanish pronunciation: [kundinaˈmaɾka]) is a department of Colombia. Its area covers 22,623 square kilometres (8,735 sq mi) (not including the Capital District) and it has a population of 2,919,060 as of 2018 (3,445,300, DANE 2023 projections). It was created on August 5, 1886, under the constitutional terms presented on the same year. Cundinamarca is located in the center of Colombia.
Cundinamarca's capital city is Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. This is a special case among Colombian departments, since Bogotá is not legally a part of Cundinamarca, yet it is the only department that has its capital designated by the Constitution (if the capital were to be ever moved, it would take a constitutional reform to do so, instead of a simple ordinance passed by the Cundinamarca Assembly). In censuses, the populations for Bogotá and Cundinamarca are tabulated separately; otherwise, Cundinamarca's population would total over 11 million.