The City Where I Live

The city where I live is Santa Fe de Bogota, is a big city, with approximately 10´000.000 people with a variety of cultures, because living people from all sides of colombia and even the world. This great city has many places to offer to residents and also to tourists, so that their stay here be a pleasant.
In 1538, when the conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada founded the city gave the name of Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza. However, one year later, in 1539, during the legal foundation of the city, the name is changed to that of SantaFe or Santa Fe.
The name Bogotá was not an official during the colonial era, but its use became common by the need to distinguish this from other cities Santafé with the same name, Bogota being the indigenous name of the region. During this period was called Bogota to the current population of Funza.
Is the capital of colombia, which is divided into 20 localities, and it's the capital of cundinamarca state. It is located in the center of the country in the area known as Sabana de Bogota, which in turn is part of the altiplano cundiboyacense,.
As the nation's capital, hosts the highest-ranking bodies of the executive branch (Casa de Narino), legislative (Congress) and judicial (Supreme Court, Constitutional Court and Council of State). On the economic front is highlighted as an important economic and industrial center.
The city is also the most important cultural center of Colombia and one of the main of Latin America . The important cultural offerings is represented in the large number of museums, theaters and libraries, some of them being the most important in the country. In addition, hosts major festivals broad background and recognition nationally and internationally. It also highlights the academic activity, since some of the most important Colombian universities are located in the city. It should be noted that UNESCO awarded the city the title of World Book Capital for 2007.
The city of Bogotá is the third largest city in terms of economic and cultural development of the South America, after: Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires and the fourth of the entire Latin America after Sao Paulo, Mexico City and Buenos Aires. Bogota has made very positive socio-economic data in recent years.
Bogotá has different and varied activities for recreation and culture, where they can make family plans, friends plans where they can visit, museums, parks and many more attractions that the city has. Likewise development that this city offers, the daily growth and the significant job opportunities to be found, ease of transport as it has a varied availability of transport.
The city of Bogota to have an extension so large in its territory, also affront problems, such as caring for some streets and destitute all these problems can be solved by paying more attention and devote money and time to resolve them.