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The name of Bogotá corresponds to the Spanish pronunciation of the Chibcha Bacatá (or Muyquytá) which was the name of a neighboring settlement located between the modern towns of Funza and Cota. There are different opinions about the meaning of the word Muyquytá, the most accepted being that it means "walling of the farmland" in the Chibcha ...
The educated speech of Bogotá, a generally conservative variety of Spanish, has high popular prestige among Spanish-speakers throughout the Americas. [3] The Colombian Academy of Language (Academia Colombiana de la Lengua) is the oldest Spanish language academy after Spain's Royal Spanish Academy; it was founded in 1871. [4]
fulano muysca person cha male cho good guy COP fulano muysca cha cho guy fulano person male good COP So-and-so is a good male (1b) (Lugo, 1619:3r) muysca person fuhucha woman cho good muysca fuhucha cho person woman good Good woman Adjective The adjective muysca does not agree in gender or number with the noun. According to its form, it can be basic, derived or periphrastic. The periphrastic ...
The Spanish pronunciation of his name brought about the Colombian capital Bogotá. Tisquesusa was the ruler of the southern Muisca Confederation at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca , when the troops led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and his brother entered the central Andean highlands.
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
Señal Colombia (Spanish pronunciation: [seɲˈal kolˈombja]) is a Colombian public Terrestrial television channel, which offers opinion, informative, entertainment, educational, sports and cultural content and is part of RTVC Sistema de Medios Públicos.
A group of buses in central Bogotá. The guerra del centavo period was marked by an oversupply of buses throughout the city causing monopolistic competition.. Guerra del centavo (Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [ˈgera ðel senˈtaβo], 'penny war') is the name given to a period in the history of Bogotá, capital city of Colombia, where deregulation of public transport following ...
Santa Fe (Spanish pronunciation:) is the third locality of Bogotá, the Capital District of Colombia. Santa Fe is part of the traditional downtown area where Bogotá was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada on August 6, 1538. Historically, this area comprised the entire main urban area of Bogotá, and was known as "Santa Fe de Bogotá".