Currently Bogotá holds the world's largest car-free weekday event covering the entire city.

* The Idiots Abroad: The Brothers are split up attempting to travel to Colombia hoping to score on cheap dope down there, yet none of them manages to even just reach Bogotá ; Fat Freddy accidentally joins a group of nuclear terrorists in Scotland before disrupting the International Workers ' Day military parade in Moscow, USSR and being subsequently sold to slavery in Africa, Franklin is almost killed by a native apocalyptic South American cult before joining a group of pirates, while Phineas ends up in Mecca and becomes the world's richest man after founding a new religion.

It handles all domestic and international flights into Bogotá and boasts the world's third largest landing field of land.

The City of Bogotá organizes Sin mi carro en Bogotá in cooperation with the World Carfree Day Consortium, the world's first large scale " Thursday " CFD project, and launches its Bogotá Challenge to the rest of the world.

* Sumapaz Paramo, Bogotá, Colombia ( world's largest moorland )

Cundinamarca convened a " Congress of the United Provinces ," which first met in Bogotá, but later moved to Tunja and Leyva to maintain independence from the capital city.

The IRA / FARC-EP connection was first made public on 11 August 2001, following the arrest in Bogotá of two IRA explosives and urban warfare experts and of a representative of Sinn Féin who was known to be stationed in Cuba.

During the eighteenth century, the figure of the priest, mathematician and botanist José Celestino Mutis ( 1732 – 1808 ), was delegated by the Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Gongora to conduct an inventory of the nature of the Nueva Granada, which became known as the Botanical Expedition, which classified plants, wildlife and founded the first astronomical observatory in the city of Santa Fé de Bogotá.

The Squadron was located in the Airport of Techo, the first airport of Bogotá.

His first one-man show was held at the Galería Leo Matiz in Bogotá, a few months after his arrival.

Betancourt transferred power to his old teacher, the novelist Rómulo Gallegos ( who was the first Venezuelan president elected by direct and universal suffrage ), being appointed by the latter to head the Venezuelan Delegation to the IX Inter American Conference to be held in Bogotá, in 1948.

Bogotá launches the first ECFD 2001 project with its second Dia sin Carro.

By picking the first " R " from the list, the captain caused the autopilot to start flying a course to Bogotá, resulting in the airplane turning east in a wide semicircle.

In 1963, in the Barraquer ophthalmologic clinic ( Bogotá, Colombia ) Jose Barraquer developed the first proficient refractive surgery technique called keratomileusis, meaning corneal reshaping ( from Greek κέρας ( kéras: horn ) and σμίλευσις ( smileusis: carving )).

On November 30, 1992, the band performed for the first time in Bogotá, Colombia.

In 1929 he was elected Alderman for Bogotá, which marked his first foray into politics.

The first Board of Directors of the newly organized Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia assembled in Bogotá, on August 3, 1929.

Together with Sebastián de Belalcázar, Federmann re-founded the city of Bogotá on April 27, 1539 after Jiménez de Quesada failed to fulfill the official requirements of the Spanish Crown concerning the founding of a settlement when he attempted to establish a first Bogotá on August 6, 1538.

It was first modeled in Bogotá, Colombia by Pastor César Castellanos and his wife Claudia after Castellanos had a vision from God instructing him to implement this structure of cell groups of 12.

For his fourth album, Zaa returned to the Sonolux studios in Bogotá, where he made his first album Sentimiento, and to his original producer, Milton Salcedo, and recorded old romantic standards, boleros and waltzes, in an attempt to replicate the success of Sentimiento.

After returning to Bogotá in 1960 to found and Chair the first Department of Anthropology in Colombia, Gerardo began fieldwork at the site of Puerto Hormiga where they discovered the earliest dated pottery in all of the New World ( at that time ), at over 5 thousand years old-which indicated that pottery had been first developed in the Caribbean coast of Colombia and then spread elsewhere to the rest of the Americas and hence was not brought through diffusion from the Old World.

He was first arrested in Bogotá on May 24, 1958 for petty theft.

However, FIFA soon backed away from the proposal after international condemnation, and under political pressure from the CONMEBOL countries, first extending the maximum altitude to 2800 m ( 9190 ft ) in June 2007, which made Bogotá and Quito viable international venues once again, and then waiving the restriction for La Paz in July 2007.

Among his best results in other important tournaments were: clear first at Iwonicz Zdroj 1957, equal first with Taimanov at Dresden 1959, equal first with Lajos Portisch at Beverwijk 1965, clear first at Kislovodsk 1966, clear first at Gothenburg 1967, clear first at Kislovodsk 1968, equal first with Mikhail Botvinnik at Wijk aan Zee 1969 ( ahead of Keres ), equal first at Havana 1971 with Vlastimil Hort, equal first at Hilversum 1973 with Laszlo Szabo, clear first at Budapest 1973 ahead of Anatoly Karpov, clear first at Teesside 1975, clear first at Moscow 1975 ( ahead of Boris Spassky, Viktor Korchnoi, and Petrosian ), clear first at Las Palmas 1976, equal first with Gennadi Sosonko at Wijk aan Zee 1977, clear first at Bogotá 1978, equal first at Bern 1987 with Daniel Campora, clear first at Dortmund ' A ' 1989, and equal first at New York Manhattan 1990 with Gregory Kaidanov, at age 65.

* September 2, 1989: Car bomb against major newspaper El Espectador in Bogotá.

Several major cities exist either in the Andes or in the foothills, among which are Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, Colombia ; Quito, Ecuador ; Mérida, Venezuela ; La Paz, Bolivia ; Santiago, Chile, and Cusco, Peru.

Shortly before the World Cup Charlton was involved in the Bogotá Bracelet incident in which he and Bobby Moore were accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery store.

Within Colombia, the two cultures with the most complex cacicazgo systems were the Tayronas in the Caribbean region, and the Muiscas in the highlands near Bogotá, both of which belonged to the Chibchan language family.

In 1549, the institution of the Audiencia in Santa Fe de Bogotá gave that city the status of capital of New Granada, which comprised in large part what is now territory of Colombia.

As a result, Ecuador became the District of the South within the Republic of Gran Colombia, which also included present-day Venezuela and Colombia and had Bogotá as its capital.

* The main square in Bogotá, Colombia is called plaza de Bolívar ( Bolivar Square ), around this square rise the Colombian national capitol, the Colombian palace of justice, the palace of lievano ( which houses the mayor of Bogotá ), and the main cathedral of the city.

* 5th Division ( Bogotá )-Its jurisdiction covers the Central Region of Colombia in which there are the departments of Cundinamarca, Boyaca, Huila and Tolima.

The people from Cali called for help to the " Junta Suprema " in Bogotá, which sent a contingent under colonel Antonio Baraya to support the independence cause.

Nevado del Ruiz, which lies about west of Bogotá, is part of the Andes mountain range.

TransMilenio serves Bogotá with high-capacity articulated buses, which passengers can board through three doors.

The Congress in Bogotá, including several of the Venezuelans among it, received the complaints coming from Venezuela, which alleged that Páez had not properly understood the extent of his orders and had exceeded them in his implementation.

Engativá, which translates to Chieftain of Inga, was a municipality of Cundinamarca, but became a locality of Bogotá, Colombia when Bogotá was made " Special District " ( today " Capital District ").

The capital of the Atlántico Department, it is the largest industrial city and port in the Colombian Caribbean region with a population of 1, 885, 500 as of 2011 in its metropolitan area, which makes it Colombia's fourth most populous city after Bogotá, Medellín and Cali.

White Colombians established the capital of their republic in Bogotá, the former Viceroyal city, which was the capital of the Confederation of the Zipa, and was known as Bacatá.

Other parts are more hospitable, such as the tableland of much of Cundinamarca ( including Bogotá ) and Boyacá ( called in Spanish the Altiplano Cundiboyacense ), which has a climate similar to the Argentine pampas.

Medellín is in the Aburra valley, on the central mountain range, at a lower altitude than chilly Bogotá, which gives it an " eternal spring "- like climate.

Driven by a desire to reduce costs in social housing, the team of Gaviotas studied the best systems from Israel, and made adaptations as to meet the specifications set by the Banco Central Hipotecario ( BCH ) which prescribed that the system must be operational in cities like Bogotá where there are more than 200 days overcast.

Bolívar decided to rejoin the patriot cause and made his way to Cartagena de Indias, which had established itself as an independent republic on November 11, 1811 ( in reaction as much to events in Spain as to attempts by the junta in Bogotá to control it ) and joined a few days later in a confederation with four other provinces, the United Provinces of New Granada.

Both houses of Congress meet at the neoclassical Capitolio Nacional (" National Capitol ") building in central Bogotá, the construction of which began in 1847 and was not concluded until 1926.