Bogotá
Bogotá, officially Bogotá D.C, is the capital of Colombia. One of the world's mega-cities, Bogotá is a global center for finance, politics, culture, shopping, media, and entertainment.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include La Candelaria and Zona Rosa.
La Candelaria
Zona Rosa
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Zona Rosa, also known as "Zona T" for the T-shaped area at its heart, is one of Bogotá's major shopping and entertainment districts, home to Michelin star restaurants, five-star hotels and resorts, luxury shops and boutiques.
Santa Fé-Los Mártires
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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.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Usaquén and Teusaquillo-Salitre.
Usaquén
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Usaquén is one of the largest districts in Bogota with nearly 1 million citizens. Usaquen is where many of the wealthiest and most affluent neighborhoods in the city are located, being the seat to huge high-end shopping malls, luxury boutiques, vast financial…
Teusaquillo-Salitre
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Teusaquillo-Salitre located in between the El Dorado International airport and Bogota's Historic Center, Teusaquillo is a borough, located at the Geographical center of Bogota.
Chapinero-Zona G
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Chapinero is an affluent district in the north-east of Bogotá. It is home to the Zona G, an area of upscale restaurants.
West Bogotá
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The west also sometimes referred to as South Western Bogota is a huge region of Bogota, comprising the localities of Engativa, Fontibon, and Kennedy.
Parque 93
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Parque 93 is the centerpiece of a section of Bogotá, just north of the Zona Rosa. The whole neighborhood is a lovely place for walking, and has great restaurants and nightlife—especially in the park itself.
South Bogotá
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The South is a large area comprising six localities of Bogota. This area tends to be where the majority of the city's low-income and middle-working classes live.
Northwest Bogotá
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Northwest Bogotá is comprised majorly by the locality of Suba, and a small part of the locality of Barrios Unidos. The locality of Suba is the most populous district in Bogota, with over 1 and a half million citizens, it is almost its own independent city.
Photo: Jorge Díaz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio El Campín and Movistar Arena.
Estadio El Campín
Stadium
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The Estadio Nemesio Camacho El Campín, commonly known as El Campín, is the main stadium of Bogotá, Colombia. It was inaugurated on 10 August 1938 and has a capacity of 39,512 spectators.
Movistar Arena
Stadium
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Movistar Arena, previously known as Coliseo Cubierto El Campín, is an indoor sporting arena located in Bogotá, Colombia. It was built in 1973 and renovated in 2018.
Simón Bolívar Park
Park
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The Simón Bolívar Metropolitan Park, best known as the Simón Bolívar Park, is a greenspace and entertainment and sports complex located in the middle of the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barrios Unidos and Teusaquillo.
Barrios Unidos
Suburb
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Barrios Unidos is the 12th locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It is located to the northwest of the city, and is mostly inhabited by middle class residents. Barrios Unidos is completely urban, with some light industry and major commercial areas.
Teusaquillo
Suburb
Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Teusaquillo is the 13th locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It is located in the geographic center of the city, to the northwest of downtown Bogotá.
Chapinero
Suburb
Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chapinero is the 2nd locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It is located in the north of the city and is one of the more affluent districts of the city.
Bogotá
- Type: City with 8,180,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Colombia
- Also known as: “Bogota”, “Bogotá Distrito Capital”, “Bogota, Colombia”, “Bogotá, D.C.”, “Santa Fe de Bogotá”, and “Santafé de Bogotá”
- Neighbors: Chía and Funza
- Categories: municipality of Colombia, first-level administrative division, capital district or territory, big city, direct-controlled municipality, human settlement, largest city, and locality
- Location: Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
4.6534° or 4° 39′ 12″ northLongitude
-74.0836° or 74° 5′ 1″ westPopulation
8,180,000Elevation
2,582 metres (8,471 feet)IATA airport code
BOGUnited Nations Location Code
CO BOGOpen location code
67P7MW38+9GOpenStreetMap ID
node 671806634OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3688689Wikidata ID
Q2841
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Bogotá” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Богота”
- Achinese: “Bogota”
- Adyghe: “Богота”
- Afrikaans: “Bogotá”
- Albanian: “Bogota”
- Albanian: “Bogotá”
- Amharic: “ቦጎታ”
- Angika: “बोगोटा”
- Arabic: “بوغوتا”
- Aragonese: “Bogotá”
- Armenian: “Բոգոտա”
- Armenian: “Սանտա ֆե դե Բոգոտա”
- Arpitan: “Bogotâ”
- Assamese: “বগোটা”
- Asturian: “Bogotá”
- Avaric: “Богота”
- Aymara: “Wukuta”
- Azerbaijani: “Boqota”
- Balinese: “Bogotá”
- Bambara: “Bogotá”
- Banjar: “Bogotá”
- Bashkir: “Богота”
- Basque: “Bogota”
- Batak Mandailing: “Bogota”
- Bavarian: “Bogotá”
- Belarusian: “Багата”
- Bengali: “বোগোটা”
- Bengali: “বোগোতা”
- Bhojpuri: “बोगोटा”
- Bislama: “Bogota”
- Bosnian: “Bogotá”
- Breton: “Bogotá”
- Bulgarian: “Богота”
- Burmese: “ဘိုဂိုတာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Bogotà”
- Cebuano: “Bogotá”
- Central Bikol: “Bogotá”
- Central Kurdish: “بۆگۆتا”
- Chavacano: “Bogotá”
- Chechen: “Богота”
- Cherokee: “Bogotá”
- Cherokee: “ᏬᎪᏔ”
- Cheyenne: “Bogotá”
- Chinese: “Bogotá”
- Chinese: “波哥大”
- Chuvash: “Богота”
- Cornish: “Bogotá”
- Corsican: “Bogotà”
- Crimean Tatar: “Bogota”
- Croatian: “Bogota”
- Croatian: “Bogotá”
- Czech: “Bogotá, D. C.”
- Czech: “Bogotá, Distrito Capital”
- Czech: “Bogota”
- Czech: “Bogotá”
- Danish: “Bogotá”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bogota”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bogotá”
- Dotyali: “बोगोटा”
- Dutch: “Bogota”
- Eastern Mari: “Богота”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوجوتا”
- Esperanto: “Bogoto”
- Esperanto: “Ĉefurba Distrikto Bogoto”
- Esperanto: “Sankta Fido de Bogoto”
- Estonian: “Bogotá”
- Ewe: “Bogotá”
- Extremaduran: “Bogotá”
- Faroese: “Bogotá”
- Fiji Hindi: “Bogotá”
- Fijian: “Bogotá”
- Finnish: “Bogotá”
- French: “Bogotá D.C.”
- French: “Bogota”
- French: “Bogotá”
- French: “Santa Fe de Bogotá”
- Friulian: “Bogotà”
- Galician: “Bogotá”
- Galician: “Santafé de Bogotá”
- Georgian: “ბოგოტა”
- German: “Bogota”
- German: “Bogotá”
- German: “Santa Fe de Bogotá”
- German: “Santafe de Bogota”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bogota”
- Greek: “Μπογκοτά”
- Guarani: “Bogotá”
- Guarani: “Vogota”
- Gujarati: “બોગોટા”
- Haitian: “Bogota”
- Hakka Chinese: “Bogotá”
- Hausa: “Bogotá”
- Hawaiian: “Bogota”
- Hebrew: “בוגוטה”
- Hebrew: “בוגותה”
- Hebrew: “סנטה פה דה בוגוטה”
- Hebrew: “סנטה פה של בוגוטה”
- Hindi: “बोगोटा”
- Hungarian: “Bogotá”
- Hungarian: “Santa Fé de Bogotá”
- Iban: “Bogotá”
- Icelandic: “Bógóta”
- Ido: “Bogota”
- Igbo: “Bogotá”
- Iloko: “Bogotá”
- Indonesian: “Bogotá”
- Ingush: “Богота”
- Interlingua: “Bogotá”
- Interlingue: “Bogotá”
- Inupiaq: “Bogotá”
- Irish: “Bogotá”
- Italian: “Bogotá”
- Italian: “Bogotà”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Bogota”
- Japanese: “サンタ・フェ・デ・ボゴタ”
- Japanese: “ボコタ”
- Japanese: “ボゴタ”
- Japanese: “南米のアテネ”
- Javanese: “Bogotá”
- Kabiyè: “Pogotaa”
- Kabyle: “Bogota”
- Kalaallisut: “Bogotá”
- Kannada: “ಬೊಗೋಟ”
- Kannada: “ಬೊಗೋಟಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Bogota”
- Kazakh: “Богота”
- Khmer: “ទីក្រុងបូកូតា”
- Kikuyu: “Bogota”
- Kinyarwanda: “Bogota”
- Kirghiz: “Богота”
- Kölsch: “Bogotá”
- Komi: “Богота”
- Kongo: “Bogota”
- Korean: “보고타”
- Kurdish: “Bogota”
- Kurdish: “Bogotá”
- Ladino: “Bogota”
- Ladino: “Bogotá”
- Latgalian: “Bogota”
- Latin: “Bogota”
- Latvian: “Bogota”
- Latvian: “Santafē de Bogota”
- Lezghian: “Богота”
- Ligurian: “Bogotá”
- Limburgan: “Bogotá”
- Lingala: “Bogota”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Bogota”
- Literary Chinese: “波哥大”
- Lithuanian: “Bogota”
- Livvi: “Bogota”
- Lojban: “bogotas”
- Lombard: “Bogotà”
- Low German: “Bogotá”
- Lower Sorbian: “Bogotá”
- Luxembourgish: “Bogotá”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bogotá D.C.”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bogota”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bogotá”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Santa Fe de Bogotá”
- Macedonian: “Богота”
- Madurese: “Bogotá”
- Malagasy: “Bogotá”
- Malay: “Bogota”
- Malay: “Bogotá”
- Malay: “بوغوتا”
- Malay: “بوݢوتا”
- Malayalam: “ബകാത്ത”
- Malayalam: “ബൊഗോട്ട”
- Malayalam: “സാന്താ ഫെ ബൊഗോട്ട”
- Malayalam: “സാന്താ ഫേഡി ബൊഗോട്ട”
- Maltese: “Bogota”
- Maltese: “Bogotá”
- Maltese: “Bogotà”
- Manx: “Bogotá”
- Maori: “Bogotá”
- Maori: “Pokata”
- Marathi: “बोगोता”
- Mazanderani: “بوگوتا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Bogotá”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bogotá”
- Minangkabau: “Bogota”
- Mingrelian: “ბოგოტა”
- Mirandese: “Bogotá”
- Moksha: “Богота”
- Mongolian: “Богота”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بوڭوطا”
- Narom: “Bogota”
- Neapolitan: “Bogotà”
- Northern Frisian: “Bogotá (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Bogotá”
- Northern Luri: “بوگوتا”
- Northern Sami: “Bogotá”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bogotá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bogotá”
- Norwegian: “Bogotá”
- Novial: “Bogota”
- Nyanja: “Bogotá”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bogotà”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܘܓܘܛܐ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bogotá”
- Oriya: “ବୋଗୋଟା”
- Oromo: “Bogotá”
- Ossetian: “Богота”
- Pampanga: “Bogotá”
- Pangasinan: “Bogotá”
- Panjabi: “ਬੋਗੋਤਾ”
- Papiamento: “Bogota”
- Pedi: “Bogotá”
- Pennsylvania German: “Bogotá”
- Persian: “بوگوتا”
- Pfaelzisch: “Bogotá”
- Picard: “Bogota”
- Piemontese: “Bogotà”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bogota”
- Polish: “Bogota”
- Polish: “Bogotá”
- Polish: “Santa Fe de Bogotá”
- Polish: “Santafe de Bogota”
- Portuguese: “Bogotá, Distrito Capital”
- Portuguese: “Bogotá”
- Portuguese: “Santa Fé de Bogotá”
- Portuguese: “Santafé de Bogotá”
- Pushto: “بوګوتا”
- Quechua: “Bogotá”
- Romanian: “Bogotá D.C.”
- Romanian: “Bogota”
- Romanian: “Bogotá”
- Romanian: “Santa Fe de Bogotá”
- Romansh: “Bogotá”
- Rundi: “Bogotá”
- Russia Buriat: “Богота”
- Russian: “Богота”
- Russian: “Санта-Фе-де-Богота”
- Rusyn: “Боґота”
- Sakizaya: “Puketa”
- Samoan: “Bogota”
- Samogitian: “Buoguota”
- Sango: “Bogotá”
- Sardinian: “Bogotá”
- Saterfriesisch: “Bogotá”
- Scots: “Bogota”
- Scots: “Bogotá”
- Scots: “Santa Fe de Bogotá”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bogotá”
- Serbian: “Bogota”
- Serbian: “Богота”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bogota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bogotá”
- Shona: “Bogotá”
- Sicilian: “Bogotá”
- Sicilian: “Bogotà”
- Silesian: “Bogota”
- Sindhi: “بگوٽا”
- Sinhala: “බොගෝටා”
- Slovak: “Bogota”
- Slovenian: “Bogota”
- Somali: “Bogota”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوقوتا”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوگوتا”
- Southern Sotho: “Bogotá”
- Spanish: “Bogotá, D.C.”
- Spanish: “Bogotá, Distrito Capital”
- Spanish: “Bogotá”
- Spanish: “Distrito Capital (Colombia)”
- Spanish: “Santa Fé de Bogotá”
- Spanish: “Santafe de Bogotá” (historical)
- Spanish: “Santafé de Bogotá” (historical)
- Sranan Tongo: “Bogotá”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⴳⵓⵜⴰ”
- Sundanese: “Bogotá”
- Swahili: “Bogota”
- Swati: “Bogotá”
- Swedish: “Bogotá”
- Swiss German: “Bogotá”
- Tachelhit: “Buguṭa”
- Tagalog: “Bogota”
- Tagalog: “Bogotá”
- Tahitian: “Bogota”
- Tajik: “Богота”
- Talysh: “Bogotə”
- Talysh: “Boqota”
- Tamil: “பகோடா”
- Tamil: “பொகோட்டா”
- Tatar: “Богота”
- Telugu: “బొగోటా”
- Telugu: “బోగోటా”
- Tetum: “Bogotá”
- Thai: “โบโกตา”
- Tibetan: “པོ་གོ་ཏ”
- Tigrinya: “ቦጎታ”
- Tok Pisin: “Bogota”
- Tok Pisin: “Bogotá”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pokotā”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bogotá”
- Tswana: “Bogotá”
- Turkish: “Bogota (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Bogotá (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Bogota belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Bogotá belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Bogota”
- Turkish: “Bogotá”
- Turkmen: “Bogota”
- Twi: “Bogotá”
- Udmurt: “Богота”
- Uighur: “Bogota”
- Ukrainian: “Богота”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bogota”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bogotá”
- Upper Sorbian: “Santa Fe de Bogotá”
- Urdu: “بوگوتا”
- Uzbek: “Bogota”
- Uzbek: “Bogotá”
- Venda: “Bogotá”
- Venetian: “Bogotà”
- Veps: “Bogot”
- Veps: “Bogota”
- Vietnamese: “Bogotá”
- Vlaams: “Bogotá”
- Vlax Romani: “Bogotá”
- Volapük: “Bogotá”
- Võro: “Bogota”
- Walloon: “Bogota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bogotá”
- Welsh: “Bogotá”
- Western Armenian: “Պոկոթա”
- Western Frisian: “Bogota”
- Western Frisian: “Bogotá”
- Western Panjabi: “بگوٹا”
- Wu Chinese: “波哥大”
- Yakut: “Богота”
- Yiddish: “באגאטא”
- Yoruba: “Bogotá”
- Yue Chinese: “波哥大”
- Zhuang: “Bohgohda”
- Zulu: “IBogotaa”
- “Bogota”
- “Bogotá”
- “Bugutà”
- “Buoguota”
- “बोगोटा”
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