Ciudad Bolívar (Bogotá)
Basic data | |
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Surface: | 129.98 km 2 |
location | 4 ° 35 ′ N , 74 ° 9 ′ W |
Height above d. M .: | 2570 m |
Population (2015): | 713.764 |
Post Code: | 111911 (La Coruña-Madelena) 111921 (Perdomo-Galicia) 111931 (Sierra Morena-Potosí) 111941 (Candelaria La Nueva) 111951 (Lucero Alto) 111961 (Quiba-Mochuelo) 111971 (Pasquilla) 111981 (Zona Rural) |
politics | |
Department : | Bogotá |
Structure: | El Mochuelo Monte Blanco Arborizadora San Francisco Lucero El Tesoro Ismael Perdomo Barrios |
Mayor: | Edward Alberto Moreno Arbeláez |
Ciudad Bolívar website | |
location | |
Ciudad Bolívar is the 19th district ( localidad ) in the southwestern part of the Colombian capital city of Bogotá . With an area of 12,998.58 hectares (3,433 hectares of urban areas; 9,555 hectares of rural areas) it is the third largest district of Bogotá in terms of area with around 713,764 inhabitants. The municipality of Ciudad Bolívar was founded in 1983 because there had been land occupations in the south of the city of Bogotá. So the city administration tried to defuse the conflict.
ghetto
Ciudad Bolívar, a district marked by violence, crime, drugs and a lack of prospects, is one of 20 administrative districts in Bogotá. Here and in the neighboring districts of Soacha and Usme , more than a third of the seven million Bogotans live in hundreds of slums. It is the part of the city that is not mentioned in travel guides and is rarely visited by foreign tourists, but also by members of the local middle class. While most of the Ciudad Bolívar district is rural, the urban part consists of one of the largest mega-slums in the world. In the urban area it concentrates the poorest population of Bogotá. It is known for its high level of violence and a high level of activity by gangs and the mafia .
TransMiCable
The TransMiCable cable car has been in operation since December 2018 , and has four stations that better connect the outer district of Ciudad Bolívar and San Cristóbal with the center. During the construction work at the beginning of July 2017, ancient pre-Columbian graves with several skeletons were found.
Culture
The cultural dynamics of the urban district is characterized by its diversity, which reflects its social and multicultural composition. The cultural offer includes a large number of conference rooms for training and promoting the population. The possibilities range from festivals to artistic education, training courses, conferences and research projects on cultural heritage.
Limits
North: Autopista Sur with Bosa
East: Districts Tunjuelito and Usme
South: District Sumapaz
West: Municipio Soacha ( Cundinamarca )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Localidades / Ciudad Bolívar ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . bogotacomovamos.org. Accessed March 17, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ Beyond Security. In the south of Bogota . Daily mirror . 31 January 2010
- ↑ Planet of Slums ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . By Mike Davis. Accessed March 17, 2017 (English)
- ↑ Transmicable ya fue inaugurado: beneficiará a 700,000 personas en el sur de Bogotá report from the television station Caracol. Retrieved December 28, 2018
- ↑ Cables Aéreos para Bogotá, un Proyecto que marcha a buen ritmo ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. idu.gov.co, accessed July 22, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ Construction workers discover ancient graves . Deutschlandfunk.de, accessed on July 22, 2017
- ↑ Localidad de Ciudad Bolívar . bogota.gov.co. Accessed March 17, 2017 (Spanish)
Web links
- Localidad Ciudad Bolívar (es)
- Official website of the city of Bogotá (es)
- Ciudad Bolívar: La Historia de una Lucha Celectiva (es)
- Ciudad Bolívar, contrastes de una historia El Espectador (es)