Cundinamarca

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Cundinamarca
Department of Colombia

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Capital	Bogotá
Governor
Area	22,623 km²
Population  - Total (2003)  - Density	2,349,578 104 people/km²
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Cundinamarca is a department of Colombia, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".

The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kundur Marca, an indigenous expression used in pre-Columbian times by the natives of the Magdalena Valley to refer to the nearby highlands, meaning Condor's Nest.

Most of Cundinamarca is in the Eastern Cordillera, just south of Boyacá, bordered by the Magdalena River on the west, reaching down into the Amazon River basin on the east, and bordering on Tolima to the south. The federal district of Bogotá is nearly completely surrounded by Cundinamarca territory, and indeed was formed by carving up Cundinamarca; between this and other divisions, the present department of Cundinamarca is much smaller than the original state.

Principal towns in Cundinamarca include Engativá, Facatativá, Girardot, Soacha, Zipaquirá, Fusagasugá, and Guaduas.

The capital of Cundinamarca is Bogotá. This is a special case among Colombian departments, since Bogotá is not legally a part of Cundinamarca, yet it is the only department that has its capital designated by the Constitution (meaning that if the capital was to be ever moved, it would take a constitutional reform to do so, instead of a simple ordinance passed by the Cundinamarca Assembly). Also, in censuses, the populations for Bogotá and Cundinamarca are tabulated separately; otherwise, Cundinamarca's population would total 9.5 million.

Entity	Population	Area (km²)	Density
Cundinamarca (excluding DC)	2,349,578	22,623	104
Bogotá DC	7,117,984	1,587	4,485
Cundinamarca plus Bogotá	9,467,562	24,210	391

Postage stamps

As with the other states, Cundinamarca once had the right to issue its own postage stamps, and it issued stamps with the state's coat of arms, starting in 1870 and ending in 1904. Many of these are still readily available. There is one rarity, the 2-real provisional stamp from 1883, although there is some doubt as to whether it was sold to the public, since no used copies are known to exist. Likewise, authentic uses of any Cundinamarca stamp on cover are not often seen.

Municipalities

1. Agua de Dios
2. Albán
3. Anapoima
4. Anolaima
5. Arbeláez
6. Beltrán
7. Bituima
8. Bogotá
9. Bojacá
10. Cabrera
11. Cachipay
12. Cajicá
13. Caparrapí
14. Caqueza
15. Carmen de Carupa
16. Chaguani
17. Chía
18. Chipaque
19. Choachá
20. Chocontá
21. Cogua
22. Cota
23. Cucunubá
24. El Colegio
25. El Peñón
26. Facatativá
27. Fomeque
28. Fosca
29. Funza
30. Fuquene
31. Fusagasugá
32. Gachala
33. Gachancipá
34. Gacheta
35. Gama
36. Girardot
37. Guachetá
38. Guaduas
39. Guasca
40. Guataqui
41. Guatavita
42. Guayabal de Síquima
43. Guayabetal
44. Gutierrez
45. Jerusalen
46. Junín
47. La Calera
48. La Mesa
49. La Palma
50. La Peña
51. La Vega
52. Lenguazaque
53. Machetá
54. Madrid
55. Manta
56. Medina
57. Mosquera
58. Nariño
59. Nemocón
60. Nilo
61. Nimaima
62. Nocaima
63. Ospina Perez
64. Pacho
65. Paime
66. Pandi
67. Paratebueno
68. Pasca
69. Puerto Salgar
70. Puli
71. Quebradanegra
72. Quetame
73. Quipile
74. Rafael Reyes
75. Ricaurte
76. San Antonio de Tena
77. San Bernardo
78. San Cayetano
79. San Francisco
80. San Juan Rioseco
81. Sasaima
82. Sesquilé
83. Sibaté
84. Silvania
85. Simijacá
86. Soacha
87. Sopó
88. Subachoque
89. Suesca
90. Supatá
91. Susa
92. Sutatausa
93. Tabio
94. Tausa
95. Tena
96. Tenjo
97. Tibacuy
98. Tibiritá
99. Tocaima
100. Tocancipá
101. Topaipí
102. Ubalá
103. Ubaque
104. Ubaté
105. Une
106. Útica
107. Vergara
108. Viani
109. Villagómez
110. Villapinzón
111. Villeta
112. Viotá
113. Yacopí
114. Zipacón
115. Zipaquirá

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