Metropolitan Area of Bogotá is the

metropolitan area A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban area, urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which share Industry (economics), industries, commercial areas, Transport infrastructure, transport network ...

of the

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Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...

, usually used for statistical analysis or technical use. It is not a formal administrative division and its limits are therefore not defined. The study included the Capital District of

and 17 of the surrounding

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in the Department of Cundinamarca; Soacha, Facatativá, Zipaquirá, Chía, Mosquera,

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Funza Funza () is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Western Savanna Province, of the Departments of Colombia, department of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca. Funza is situated on the Bogotá savanna, the southwestern part of the Altiplano C ...

, Cajicá, Sibaté, Tocancipá, La Calera, Sopó,

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, Tenjo,

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, Gachancipá and Bojacá. Bogotá and its metropolitan area (ranging in altitude from to ) had a population of 9.8 million in 2015.

Metropolitan Areas in Colombia

Metropolitan areas in Colombia are regions legally established by an urban center and the surrounding areas. These areas must meet certain criteria including population, minimum average of total urban population, political motivation (accords between municipalities or other administrative entities). In Colombia there are only five of these metropolitan areas legally established. The Metropolitan Area of Medellin, Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga, Metropolitan Area of Barranquilla (also having a special district), Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta and the Metropolitan Area of the Midwest (having as head the city of Pereira). The Metropolitan areas of

Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE in 2023. The city span ...

, Popayán and Bogotá are yet to be legally established, however in some cases the Colombian government recognizes these.

Metropolitan Area of the Bogotá Savanna

This possible definition of the Metropolitan Area for Bogotá would include the Capital District with its 20 localities adding the municipalities of Soacha, Mosquera,

, Chía, Cajicá,

, La Calera, Tenjo,

, Sibaté, Zipaquirá and Facatativá (In the 2005 Census, DANE also additioned Bojacá, Gachancipá, Tocancipá and Sopó). These possible definitions for a metropolitan area of Bogotá has not been established due to the resistance of these municipalities to lose autonomy.

Population by municipality (2019 census)

Source:

Soacha and Sibaté

Soacha is the only municipality in which the urban area has conurbated with

, specifically with the localities of Bosa and

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. Sibaté conurbated with the municipality of Soacha integrating it also to Bogota.

Municipalities partially integrated

The urban perimeter of Bogotá extends to the

Bogotá River The Bogotá River is a major river of the Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca department of Colombia. A right tributary of the Magdalena River, the Bogotá River crosses the region from the northeast to the southwest and passing along the wester ...

where it limits with the municipalities of Mosquera,

and

. In this area there is an ongoing urban development, mostly industrial, that will eventually conurbate with Bogotá, the same applies to the municipality of La Calera. The urban areas of the municipalities of

and Chía are already intersecting with the Capital District. Chia and Cajicá's urban areas are also conurbated.

Commuter towns

The possible Metropolitan Area of the Bogotá Savanna would include the three main urban concentrations

, Facatativá and Zipaquirá, the last two growing as economic and industrial hubs. Among the towns that would become

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s for the City of Bogotá are Mosquera, Funza, Madrid, Chía, Cajicá, Cota, La Calera, Tenjo, Tabio, Sibaté, Zipaquirá and Facatativá. As urban centers Facatativá would serve also as working center for Madrid, El Rosal and Subachoque. Zipaquirá by the towns of Chía, Cajicá, Tabio, Tenjo and Sopó, among others.

References

External links

University of Warsaw - Territorial Ordinance Plan; Metropolitan Area of Bogota
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