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Tunjuelo River

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The Tunjuelo or Tunjuelito River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a left tributary of the Bogotá River. [1]

48 relations: Arzobispo River, Bogotá, Bogotá Formation, Bogotá River, Bogotá savanna, Bosa, Bogotá, Caribbean Sea, Chibcha language, Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá, Colombia, Conglomerate (geology), Cundinamarca Department, Departments of Colombia, Drainage basin, Eastern Hills, Bogotá, Eocene, Fontibón, Fucha River, Kennedy, Bogotá, La Isla (wetland), La Vaca, List of rivers of Colombia, Magdalena River, Marichuela Formation, Miocene, Mudstone, Muisca, Muisca religion, Municipalities of Colombia, Oligocene, Paleocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Regadera Formation, Sandstone, Shale, Siltstone, Soacha, Spanish conquest of the Muisca, Sumapaz, Sumapaz Páramo, Tibanica, Tunjo, Tunjuelito, Tunjuelo Formation, Type locality (geology), Usme, Usme Formation.

Arzobispo River

The Juan Amarillo, Arzobispo, or Salitre River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a left tributary of the Bogotá River in Colombia.

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Bogotá

Bogotá, officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santafé de Bogotá between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, administered as the Capital District, although often thought of as part of Cundinamarca.

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Bogotá Formation

The Bogotá Formation (Formación Bogotá, E1-2b, Tpb, Pgb) is a geological formation of the Eastern Hills and Bogotá savanna on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

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Bogotá River

The Bogotá River is a major river of the Cundinamarca department of Colombia, crossing the region from the northeast to the southwest and passing along the western limits of Bogotá.

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Bogotá savanna

The Bogotá savanna is a montane savanna, located in the southwestern part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the center of Colombia.

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Bosa, Bogotá

Bosa is the 7th locality of the Capital District of the Colombian capital, Bogotá.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Chibcha language

Chibcha is an extinct language of Colombia, spoken by the Muisca, one of the four advanced indigenous civilizations of the Americas.

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Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá

Ciudad Bolívar is the 19th locality in the Capital District of the Colombian capital city Bogotá.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a coarse-grained clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts, e.g., granules, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders, larger than in diameter.

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Cundinamarca Department

Department of Cundinamarca (Departamento de Cundinamarca) is one of the departments of Colombia.

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Departments of Colombia

Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and a Capital District (Distrito Capital).

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Eastern Hills, Bogotá

The Eastern Hills (Spanish: Cerros Orientales) are a chain of hills forming the eastern natural boundary of the Colombian capital Bogotá.

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Eocene

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.

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Fontibón

Fontibon is the 9th locality of Bogotá.

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Fucha River

The Fucha River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a left tributary of the Bogotá River.

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Kennedy, Bogotá

Kennedy, or Ciudad Kennedy, is the eighth locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia.

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La Isla (wetland)

La Isla is a small wetland, part of the wetlands of Bogotá.

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La Vaca

La Vaca (Humedal La Vaca) or Techovita is a small wetland, part of the Wetlands of Bogotá, located in the locality Kennedy, Bogotá, Colombia.

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List of rivers of Colombia

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Magdalena River

The Magdalena River (Río Magdalena,; Less commonly Rio Grande de la Magdalena) is the principal river of Colombia, flowing northward about through the western half of the country.

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Marichuela Formation

The Marichuela Formation (Formación Marichuela, N1m) is a geological formation of the Bogotá savanna, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Muisca

The Muisca are an indigenous group of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest.

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Muisca religion

Muisca religion describes the religion of the Muisca who inhabited the central highlands of the Colombian Andes before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca.

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Municipalities of Colombia

The Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Regadera Formation

The Regadera Formation (Formación Regadera, E2r, Tpr) is a geological formation of the Bogotá savanna, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Siltstone

Siltstone is a sedimentary rock which has a grain size in the silt range, finer than sandstone and coarser than claystones.

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Soacha

Soacha is considered a borough of Bogotá, but officially it is an autonomous municipality of the department of Cundinamarca.

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Spanish conquest of the Muisca

The Spanish conquest of the Muisca took place from 1537 to 1540.

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Sumapaz

Sumapaz is the 20th locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia.

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Sumapaz Páramo

Sumapaz Páramo (Spanish: Páramo de Sumapaz - meaning "Utterly peaceful moorland") is a large páramo ecosystem located in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense mountain range, considered the largest páramo ecosystem in the world.

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Tibanica

Tibanica (Humedal Tibanica) is a wetland, part of the Wetlands of Bogotá, located on the border of the locality Bosa, Bogotá and Soacha, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

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Tunjo

A tunjo (from Muysccubun: chunso) is a small anthropomorh or zoomorph figure elaborated by the Muisca as part of their art.

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Tunjuelito

Tunjuelito is the 6th locality of the Capital District of the Colombian capital, Bogotá.

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Tunjuelo Formation

The Tunjuelo Formation, Río Tunjuelo or Río Tunjuelito Formation (Formación Tunjuelo, Q1tu, Qpt, Qcc) is a geological formation of the Bogotá savanna, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

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Type locality (geology)

Type locality, also called type area, type site, or type section, is the locality where a particular rock type, stratigraphic unit or mineral species is first identified.

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Usme

Usme is the 5th locality of the Capital District of Bogotá, capital city of Colombia.

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Usme Formation

The Usme Formation (Formación Usme, Tsu, Teu) is a geological formation of the Bogotá savanna, Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunjuelo_River

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