Quebrada Limas is a small river of

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

that originates in the path of Quiba, in the rural part of the

Ciudad Bolívar Ciudad Bolívar (; Spanish for "Bolivar City"), formerly known as Angostura and St. Thomas de Guyana, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar, Venezuela, Bolívar State. It lies at the spot where the Orinoco River narrows to about ...

and therefore, it is a tributary of the

Tunjuelo River The Tunjuelo or Tunjuelito River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a left tributary of the Bogotá River. The river, with a length of originates in the Sumapaz Páramo and flows northward through the Usme Synclinal to enter the Colombian capit ...

General characteristics

Quebrada Limas extends southwest-northeast through a rural part and the entire urban part of Ciudad Bolivar, since in this area receives all the pollution load from garbage and the landfills of the neighborhoods of Bella Flor, Juan José Rondón, Villa Gloria, El Triunfo, Marandú, Juan Pablo II, Brisas del Volador, Sauces, San José de los Sauces, San Francisco, Villa del Diamante and Candelaria la Nueva, the latter prone to floods caused by rains. At the moment this river is under observation to achieve a total rehabilitation of its basin and to prevent major environmental problems, subject that is under pact between the Mayor's Office of Bogota and the Quebrada Limas Committee in November of 2004.Diagnóstico de emergencia N°2197 (Sistema de Información para la Atención de Riesgos y Emergencias de Bogotá SIRE) (Documento en pdf. 24 de noviembre de 2004)
Consultado el 3 de septiembre de 2011

References

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