Metropolitan Area of Bogotá

The Metropolitan Area of Bogotá within Cundinamarca Department and Bogotá, Capital District.

Metropolitan Area of Bogotá is the unofficial metropolitan area of the Colombian capital city of Bogotá, usually used for statistical analysis or technical use.

According to the 2005 National Census by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Spanish: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE)), the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá had a population of 7,883,838 inhabitants. The study included the Capital District of Bogotá and 17 of the surrounding municipalities in the Department of Cundinamarca; Soacha, Facatativá, Zipaquirá, Chía, Mosquera, Madrid, Funza, Cajicá, Sibaté, Tocancipá, La Calera, Sopó, Tabio, Tenjo, Cota, Gachancipá and Bojacá. Current estimates place the area's population at over 9.6 million at 2010.

Metropolitan Areas in Colombia

Main article: Metropolitan Areas of 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, Popayán and Bogotá are yet to be legally established, however in some cases the Colombian government recognizes these.

Metropolitan Area of the Bogotá Savanna

See also: Bogota Savannah

This possible definition of the Metropolitan Area for Bogotá would include the Capital District with its 20 localities adding the municipalities of Soacha, Mosquera, Funza, Madrid, Chía, Cajicá, Cota, La Calera, Tenjo, Tabio, 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 negativity of these municipalities to lose autonomy.

Population by municipality (2005 census)

Bogotá, Capital District (with 20 localities)	6.778.691
Soacha	396.059
Chía	197.640
Facatativá	106.070
Zipaquirá	99.996
Mosquera	63.573
Madrid	61.609
Funza	59.453
Cajicá	44.570
Sibaté	31.166
Tocancipá	23.981
La Calera	23.200
Sopó	21.015
Tabio	20.710
Cota	19.665
Tenjo	16.666
Gachancipá	10.787
Bojacá	8.937

Soacha and Sibaté

Soacha is the only municipality in which the urban area has conurbated with Bogotá, specifically with the localities of Bosa and Ciudad Bolívar. 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 where it limits with the municipalities of Mosquera, Funza and Cota. 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 Cota 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 Bogotá, Facatativá y Zipaquirá, the last two growing as economic and industrial hubs. Among the towns that would become Commuter towns for the City of Bogotá are Mosquera, Funza, Madrid, Chia, Cajica, Cota, La Calera, Tenjo, Tabio, Sibate, Zipaquira and Facatativa. As urban centers Facatativa would serve also as working center for Madrid, El Rosal and Subachoque. Zipaquira by the towns of Chia, Cajica, Tabio, Tenjo and Sopo, among others.

References

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

See also

• Bogota Savannah
• Bogotá, Capital District
• Bogotá