Where is Bogota?

Bogota is Colombia's capital city, in South America. This country is located in the Northwest corner of the subcontinent, bordering with Central America. Therefore, Bogota has a privileged geographical situation in the American continente.

The so-called 'South American Athens' is in the middle of a savannah named the same as the city and this, in turn, is over a plateau named El Antiplano Cundiboyacense. In Colombia the Andes Mountains Range is devided in three, entitled Western, Central and Eastern ranges. Bogota is on the last one, at 2.600 metres ( 8.530 ft) over the sea level. All of this in the center of the country, hunderds of kilometers (miles) away from the Colombia Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Bogota's shape is longer from North to South than from West to East. A small mountain range known as Los Cerros Orientales (rigth edge in the following map) are located parallelly to the city, from North to South. On the other side of the metropolis, in the West, El Río Bogotá (river) runs also parallelly in the same way. Both features work as the border between the city and the towns which surround it, most of them spreading out onto the Sabana de Bogota.

Because of being on Equator there are no seasons in Colombia, but two rainy ones during the year (something altered nowadays by the climate change). Due to its height, Bogota is a cold city, tradicionally some 14 degrees centigrade (57°F) average year round (this also altered by the climate change and now the city is warmer, like 18°C, 64°F).