In October 1821, after the Constitution of Cúcuta was proclaimed, Santander was elected by the newly gathered Congress as Vice President of Gran Colombia, in a heated election, where he overcame the other strong candidate for the post, the former leader of Cundinamarca, General Antonio Nariño, by a margin of 38 to 19 votes.

It established a confederation called the United Provinces of New Granada on November 27, 1811, but Cundinamarca did not recognize the new federation.

Due to the rebellion of José Tomás Boves in 1814 and the fall of the republic, he returned to New Granada, where he then commanded a force for the United Provinces and entered Bogotá in 1814, recapturing the city from the dissenting republican forces of Cundinamarca.

After the deposition of Mosquera, 25 May 1867, Murillo was a member of the legislature of Cundinamarca, and afterward for a short time again minister to the United States and judge of the supreme court.

He first served as a soldier in army of the federalist United Provinces of New Granada, under the command of General Antonio Baraya, that fought against General Antonio Nariño, of the Province of Cundinamarca, who had refused to recognize the authority of the Union.

Born 5 July 1867 in Las Vegas de Los Padres, his family's estate in Coello, Tolima, in the United States of Colombia, to Miguel Abadía C. and Arcelia Méndez. He died in La Union, Cundinamarca, on May 9, 1947.

The Republic of Colombia will be divided into three great departments, Venezuela, Quito and Cundinamarca, that will contain the Provinces of New Granada which name will be suppressed from now on.

The areas that they occupied were the Departments of Santander, Norte de Santander, Boyacá and Cundinamarca, which were also the areas where the first farms were developed.

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

Borders to the north with the departments of Santander and Norte de Santander, with which it holds a territorial dispute, to the east with the departments of Arauca and Casanare, to the south with the departments of Meta and Cundinamarca and to the west with the departments of Cundinamarca holding another territorial dispute and Antioquia.

The tableland of Boyaca shared with the department of Cundinamarca is called the Cundiboyasense tableland (), densely populated with numerous valleys in comparison with the Bogota Savanna which also lays over the Cundiboyasense tableland.

Boyacá also has numerous lakes which include Lake Tota, Lake Sochagota, Lake Fúquene which is shared with the department of Cundinamarca, the Chivor Reservoir and others.

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 ").

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.

The new Constitution of Cundinamarca, created in 1815, divided the nation into cantons, which provoked a confrontation between the Tocaima Canton and the neighboring Canton of La Mesa.

Words of Muyskkubun origin are still used in the departments of Cundinamarca of which Bogotá is the capital, and Boyacá.

One of the most important inspections Guaduas, according to historian Tiberius Murcia Godoy, " there is a major river port of the New Kingdom of Granada, dating from 1555, and today there are plans to build a theme park to collect large part of the culture and history not only of Guaduas, or Cundinamarca but the Republic of Colombia ", in addition to the Navarro Bridge, which was built between 1894 – 1898, and inaugurated on January 16, 1899, being the birthday of its owner, Don Bernardo Navarro Bohorquez.

This situation led to the ranch owners to donate land to settle in part the problem was how we started the construction of 17 new homes, resulting in the formation of a new town, which because of their increasing wealth and development was upgraded to a municipality, by Ordinance No. 1915 of April 21, after being returned to the department of Tolima in other territories that were under the jurisdiction of Cundinamarca.

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

During the first two years of the Uribe administration, several FARC-EP fronts, most notably in Cundinamarca and Antioquia, were broken by the government's military operations.

By March 1811 the province of Bogotá had transformed itself into a state called Cundinamarca.

He was born in the state of Cundinamarca and educated in Bogotá.

There is another place called Zabriskie Point near Mosquera, Cundinamarca, a small town 30 km west from Bogotá, Colombia.

Most of the municipalities of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca departments are derived from Chibchan names: Bogotá, Sogamoso, Zipaquirá, and many others.

Bogotá is partially dependent on the Cundinamarca Department that surrounds it.

Zaldúa was born in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, on December 3, 1811.

He died in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, on April 14, 1976, at the age of 84.

He died in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, on December 26, 1880.

He died in Santa Fe de Bogotá, Cundinamarca, on March 6, 1840.

Victor Manuel Gómez Rodriguez was born in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Republic of Colombia, son of Manuel Gómez Quijano and Francisca Rodríguez de Gómez.

They moved to the outskirts of Bogotá in a hacienda in the then municipality of Engativá, Cundinamarca Department ( nowadays a Locality of Bogotá ).

:* 1 Bogotá and Cundinamarca

In 1810 the Araucanian territory became part of the newly created province of Casanare, in 1819 became part of the department of Cundinamarca, and thereafter, by the year 1857 was annexed to the Sovereign State of Boyacá, later to be so Boyaca department.

In 1840 he was elected to the House of Representatives and, later to the Senate, both in representation of his native state of Cundinamarca.

Lleras is elected to the state senate of Cundinamarca, and later MP as congressman in the House of Representatives.

The stretch of highway from Tunja to the departmental border with Cundinamarca is 54 km, and is a toll road, so be prepared to pay the tolls.

: For the one from 1820 see Cundinamarca Department ( 1820 ).

: For the one from 1824 see Cundinamarca Department ( 1824 ).

He also served as a Representative to the National Chamber for the departments of Cundinamarca and Antioquia, and was a member of the National Constituent Assembly from 1953 to 1957.

Category: People from Cundinamarca Department

His mother, Rosaura Ayala, was a peasant from the province of Cundinamarca.

An 1899 passport tax stamp from Cundinamarca in Colombia.

Category: People from Cundinamarca Department

Simijaca ( pronounced / SIMIH ' ækƏ /), from the extinct Chibchan language meaning owl's beak, is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca Department, Colombia.