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Bogota

Bogotá
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About Bogota

Bogotá 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, educational and airport center of the country and northern South America.

On the show · 6 mentions total

A former mayor of Bogota, Antanas Mockus, once hired 420 mime artists to make fun of traffic violators, because he believed Colombians fear ridicule more than they fear punishment.

from 174: No Such Thing As A Manta Ray · read transcript

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Coordinates: 4.7111, -74.0722

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