Bogotá

[boh-guh-tah, boh-guh-tah, baw-gaw-tah]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Colombia, in the central part.

Bogotá

/ ˌbəʊɡəˈtɑː, boɣoˈta /

noun

1. the capital of Colombia, on a central plateau of the E Andes: originally the centre of Chibcha civilization; founded as a city in 1538 by the Spaniards. Pop: 7 594 000 (2005 est)

Bogotá

1. Capital of Colombia and the largest city in the country, located near the center of Colombia on a high, fertile plain.

Example Sentences

ESP was my last trip in a series of adventures I’d undertaken for my book: I had been lost in a dangerous section of Bogotá, pondered mortality in the mysterious Aokigahara Forest in Japan, hung by a cable from the side of the 117-story CN Tower, and survived more anti-gravity roller coasters and Hollywood-caliber haunted houses than I could count.

Read more on Salon

Petro was already en route to Bogota from New York on Friday night, according to Colombian media cited by Agence France-Presse.

Read more on BBC

And while the rhetoric coming out of Washington has clearly angered President Petro, his government will also be relieved that the decertification did not result in a cut of the US aid flow, BBC News Mundo's correspondent in Bogotá, José Carlos Cueto, says.

Read more on BBC

Uribe Londoño was a member of Bogotá's city council in the late 80s and a senator for Colombia's Conservative Party in the early 90s.

Read more on BBC

A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention for shooting Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay at a rally in Bogotá in June.

Read more on BBC