Sumapaz (Bogotá)

Sumapaz

Basic data
Surface:	780 km 2
location	4 ° 2 ′  N , 74 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 4 ° 2 ′  N , 74 ° 19 ′  W
Height above d. M .:	3600 m
Population (2014):	5,667
Post Code:	112011 112021 112031 112041 (Rural)
politics
Department :	Bogotá
Structure:	San Juan de Sumapaz Nazareth Betania Barrios
Mayor:	Francy Liliana Murcia (2016-2019)
Sumapaz website
location

Sumapaz is the 20th district ( localidad ) of the Colombian capital Bogotá . The southernmost district of Bogotá is the largest in terms of area with 780 square kilometers (78,000 hectares) and the least populated. Only 5,667 people live in this area. The north-south extension is about 70 kilometers.

Sumapaz is the only purely rural district of the capital of Colombia and consists of the districts of San Juan, Nazareth and Betania. In the north it borders only on the municipality of Usme and consists mainly of the Parque Nacional Natural Sumapaz, declared in 1977, with 154,000 hectares, and the Páramo de Sumapaz ecosystem with 178,000 hectares, which is supervised and guarded by the military .

history

The history of Sumapaz goes back to pre-Columbian times. The neighboring high moors of the Bogota savannah were inhabited by the Chibcha . In the region of the Río Sumapaz Indians from the tribe of the Sutagaos lived, as did subgroups of the Doar and Cundayo. In the area of Tunjuelito and the adjacent moor as well as the river area of ​​the Río Branco the indigenous inhabitants of the Muiscas were at home, who worked the marble , hunted deer and wore cotton blankets. Fugunzua was the original name of Sumapaz during the times when Indians were the only inhabitants of America.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Localidades / Sumapaz ( Memento of the original dated May 5, 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. . bogotacomovamos.org. Accessed March 19, 2017 (Spanish) 
2. ^ Parque Nacional Natural Sumapaz . parquesnacionales.gov.co. Accessed March 19, 2017 (Spanish)
3. ↑ Páramo Ecosystem . mobot.org. Accessed March 19, 2017 (English)
4. ↑ Historia del Sumapaz ( Memento of the original from February 1, 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. . sumapaz.gov.co. Retrieved on March 19, 2017 (Spanish) 

Web links

Commons : Sumapaz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Localidad Sumapaz (es)
• Official website of the city of Bogotá (es)