Cundinamarca Department

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Capital

Bogotá

Governor

Area

22,623 km²

Population
- Total (2003)
- Density

2,349,578
104 people/km²

Adjective

Cundinamarca is a department of Colombia, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".

1 Origin of the name
2 Geography
3 Postage stamps
4 Municipalities
5 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kundur marqa, an indigenous expression, probably derived from Quechua, used in pre-Colombian times by the natives of the Magdalena Valley to refer to the nearby highlands, meaning Condor's Nest.

[edit] Geography

Most of Cundinamarca is on the Eastern Cordillera (Cordillera Oriental), just south of Boyacá, bordered by the Magdalena River on the west, reaching down into the Amazon River basin on the east, and bordering on Tolima to the south. The capital district of Bogotá is nearly completely surrounded by Cundinamarca territory, and indeed was formed by carving up Cundinamarca; between this and other divisions, the present department of Cundinamarca is much smaller than the original state.

The capital of Cundinamarca is Bogotá. 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 (meaning that if the capital was to be ever moved, it would take a constitutional reform to do so, instead of a simple ordinance passed by the Cundinamarca Assembly). Also, in censuses, the populations for Bogotá and Cundinamarca are tabulated separately; otherwise, Cundinamarca's population would total 9.5 million.

Entity	Population	Area (km²)	Density
Cundinamarca (excluding D.C.)	2,349,578	22,623	104
Bogotá D.C.	7,117,984	1,587	4,485
Cundinamarca plus Bogotá	9,467,562	24,210	391

[edit] Postage stamps

See : Postage stamps of Cundinamarca

[edit] Municipalities

Agua de Dios, Albán, Anapoima, Anolaima, Arbeláez, Beltrán, Bituima, Bogotá, Bojacá, Cabrera, Cachipay, Cajicá, Caparrapí, Caqueza, Carmen de Carupa, Chaguani, Chía, Chipaque, Choachí, Chocontá, Cogua, Cota, Cucunubá, El Colegio, El Peñón, Facatativá, Fomeque, Fosca, Funza, Fúquene, Fusagasugá, Gachala, Gachancipá, Gacheta, Gama, Cundinamaraca, Girardot, Guachetá, Guaduas, Guasca, Guataqui, Guatavita, Guayabal de Síquima, Guayabetal, Gutierrez, Jerusalen, Junín, La Calera, La Mesa, La Palma, La Peña, La Vega, Lenguazaque, Machetá, Madrid, Manta, Medina, Mosquera, Nariño, Nemocón, Nilo, Cundinamarca, Nimaima, Nocaima, Ospina Perez, Pacho, Paime, Pandi, Paratebueno, Pasca, Puerto Salgar, Puli, Quebradanegra, Quetame, Quipile, Rafael Reyes, Ricaurte, San Antonio de Tena, San Bernardo, San Cayetano, San Francisco, San Juan Rioseco, Sasaima, Sesquilé, Sibaté, Silvania, Simijacá, Soacha, Sopó, Subachoque, Suesca, Supatá, Susa, Sutatausa, Tabio, Tausa, Tena, Tenjo, Tibacuy, Tibiritá, Tocaima, Tocancipá, Topaipí, Ubalá, Ubaque, Ubaté, Une, Útica, Vergara, Viani, Villagómez, Villapinzón, Villeta, Viotá, Yacopí, Zipacón, Zipaquirá