Bogotá (col)

Bogotá

Bogotá ranks 209th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sapporo, Delhi, and Nashville, Tennessee. Memorable people born in Bogotá include Juan Manuel Santos, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, and Julio César Turbay Ayala. Memorable people who died in Bogotá include Belisario Betancur, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, and Julio César Turbay Ayala. Bogotá has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Bogotá is located in Colombia.

Bogotá, 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 and largest city of Colombia. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not politically part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca. Bogotá is a territorial entity of the first order, with the same administrative status as the departments of Colombia. It is the main political, economic, administrative, industrial, cultural, aeronautical, technological, scientific, medical and educational center of the country and northern South America. Read more on Wikipedia