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Bo·go·tá
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tequendama falls
a waterfall in central Colombia, on the Bogota River, SW of Bogota. 515 feet (157 meters) high. -
chibcha
a member of a South American Indian people that lived in central Colombia and had a highly developed civilization -
colombia
a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)