Kennedy, or Ciudad Kennedy, is the eighth locality 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 ...

, capital of

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. It is located in the southwest of the city and is the second most populous being home to 14% of the city's residents. This district is mostly inhabited by working and low income residents.

General information

Borders

* North: The

Fucha River The Fucha River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a left tributary of the Bogotá River. The river originates in the Eastern Hills of the Colombian capital Bogotá and flows westward through the city into the Bogotá River. It is one of the ...

, bordering the

Fontibón Fontibon is the 9th locality of Bogotá. It is located in the west of the city. This district is mostly inhabited by low and middle class residents. Etymology The origin of the city's name can be traced to the Muisca ''cacique Huintiva'' or '' ...

locality * South: Autopista Sur and the Tunjuelo River, bordering the localities of

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

Tunjuelito Tunjuelito is the 6th locality of the Capital District of the Colombian capital, Bogotá. Tunjuelito is located in the south of Bogotá, bordering to the north with the localities of Bosa, Kennedy and Puente Aranda, to the east with the local ...

* East: Avenida Carrera 68, bordering the locality of

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. The district was nam ...

* West:

Bogotá River The Bogotá River is a major river of the 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 western limits of Bogotá. The ...

, with the municipality of

Mosquera Mosquera is a Spanish surname (first name) originally from Galicia (Spain). The family crest states (Spanish) Gallego. It derives from the mansion of the family's founder, Ramiro de Mosquera. In the fifth century, it was already linked to ''Moscos ...

Hydrology

The locality is bordered on two sides by the Fucha and Bogotá Rivers. In addition to these, it has some wetlands, including

El Tintal El Tintal is a Maya archaeological site in the northern Petén region of Guatemala, about northeast of the modern-day settlement of Carmelita, with settlement dating to the Preclassic and Classic periods. It is close to the better known si ...

Topography

Kennedy is relatively flat, due to its location on the

Bogotá savanna The Bogotá savanna is a montane savanna, located in the southwestern part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the center of Colombia. The Bogotá savanna has an extent of and an average altitude of . The savanna is situated in the Eastern Ran ...

Transportation

Major routes serving the locality include

Avenida Primero de Mayo Avenue or Avenues may refer to: Roads * Avenue (landscape), traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees, in the shifted sense a tree line itself, or some of boulevards (also without trees) * Avenue Road, Bangalore * Avenue Road, L ...

, Avenida Ciudad de Villavicencio,

Avenida Boyaca Avenue or Avenues may refer to: Roads * Avenue (landscape), traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees, in the shifted sense a tree line itself, or some of boulevards (also without trees) * Avenue Road, Bangalore * Avenue Road, L ...

, Avenida Carrera 68 (Congreso Eucarístico), Carrera 86, and Calle 44 Sur, Avenida Ciudad de Cali. The locality is served by the city's mass transit system,

TransMilenio TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that serves Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and Soacha. The system opened to the public in December 2000, covering Caracas Avenue and 80 street. Other lines were added gradually over the next s ...

, on its Avenida de Las Américas line to Portal de las Américas. As a

terminus station A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing such ...

is located within the locality, several feeder routes run throughout the various neighborhoods, including Casablanca, la Ciudadela, El Recreo, la Biblioteca El Tintal, Patio Bonito, Corabastos, and Castilla. A large portion of the road network is in a poor state.

Points of interest

* Plazoleta de Banderas (a public square showing the flags of the Americas) * El Tintal public library * Lago Timiza park * Central de Abastos (blocks full of food vendors)

Neighborhoods

The neighborhoods of Kennedy are: Castilla, Ciudad Roma, Ciudad Kennedy, Timiza, Patio Bonito, Alquería, Britalia, Tintal, Class, El Rubí, Mandalay, La Fragua, Villa Alsacia, El Carmelo, Casablanca, Villa Andrea, Alfonso Lopez, Villas de Kennedy, El Gran Colombiano, Techo, Villa Claudia, El Socorro and Tintalito.

History

Ciudad Kennedy formed part of the land settled by

Muisca The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan langu ...

probably as far back as the 6th century BC, and its historic name in Muysccubun is Techotyna. The Spanish, through the Spanish conquest of the Muisca of 1537, utilized this area for farms and cattle ranches. The 20th century brought further transformation, with urbanization starting in the 1930s. In 1948,

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

opened its main brewery in Kennedy. In 1961, an urbanization project was undertaken, financed in part by the ''Alianza para el Progreso'' (Alliance for Progress). The locality was known as Ciudad Techo until 1963, when the name was changed in honor of the assassinated

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...

, who visited Bogotá in 1961 and supported the

Alliance for Progress The Alliance for Progress ( es, Alianza para el Progreso, links=no), initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy on March 13, 1961, ostensibly aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. Governor Luis Muñoz Marí ...

Economy

The western and southern parts of the locality are developed as commercial and industrial zones, including the Bavaria brewery. There is also a location of the SENA technical school, and various shopping areas.

References

External links

*
Official site of City of Bogotá
*
National University of Colombia site about Kennedy
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