Puente Aranda
Puente Aranda is the 16th location of the Capital District of the Colombian capital city, Bogotá. It is located in the center part of Bogotá. This district is mostly inhabited by lower middle and working class residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 258,000 residents
- Description: locality of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia
- Also known as: “Bogota” and “Localidad Puente Aranda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include La Modelo and Estadio Metropolitano de Techo.
La Modelo
Prison
La Modelo is a prison in Bogotá, Colombia. With 15,000 inmates, the facility is known for its violence. Different areas of the prison are controlled by different factions of paramilitaries, guerrilla fighters, and drug cartels.
Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
Sports venue
Photo: Josegacel29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Metropolitano de Techo is a multi-use stadium in Bogotá, Colombia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Internacional de Bogotá, Fortaleza, Tigres F.C., and Bogotá F.C. The stadium holds 10,000 people. Estadio Metropolitano de Techo is situated 2½ km northwest of Puente Aranda.
Centro Mayor
Shopping center
Photo: EEIM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Centro Mayor is a shopping mall located in the south of Bogotá, Colombia. It was inaugurated on March 26, 2010. The mall has 248,000 m2 of built area, being the biggest mall in Colombia and the second one in Latin America, behind the Centro Comercial Aricanduva, in São Paulo, Brazil. Centro Mayor is situated 3 km southwest of Puente Aranda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villa Mayor and Carvajal.
Villa Mayor
Neighborhood
Photo: EEIM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Villa Mayor is a neighborhood, which is situated 2½ km south of Puente Aranda.
Carvajal
Neighborhood
Carvajal is a neighbourhood of Bogotá, Colombia. Carvajal is situated 2½ km west of Puente Aranda.
Santa Fé-Los Mártires
Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Santa Fé is the traditional downtown of Bogotá, surrounding the historic district of La Candelaria. Los Mártires is the western end of downtown, and more rarely visited by foreigners, except to check out its sketchy market for extremely good deals.
Puente Aranda
- Categories: locality and administrative territorial entity
- Location: Puente Aranda, Bogotá D.C., Bogotá, Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
4.61478° or 4° 36′ 53″ northLongitude
-74.11458° or 74° 6′ 53″ westPopulation
258,000Elevation
2,559 metres (8,396 feet)Open location code
67P7JV7P+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 7641877088OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3671604Wikidata ID
Q2648016
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Puente Aranda” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Puente Aranda”
- Esperanto: “Puente Aranda”
- French: “Puente Aranda”
- German: “Puente Aranda”
- Italian: “Puente Aranda”
- Malay: “Puente Aranda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Puente Aranda”
- Norwegian: “Puente Aranda”
- Persian: “پونته آراندا”
- Portuguese: “Puente Aranda”
- Spanish: “Puente Aranda”
- Swedish: “Puente Aranda”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Puente Aranda”. Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 3.0.