The capital of Colombia Bogotá is a huge city, the largest Colombian settlement. It is interesting for its unusual, but tourist booklets describing it as safe, quiet calm, sin against the truth. In fact, three quarters of the huge Bogota are slums, where it is dangerous not only at night, but also in the daytime. As, however, in many other, more respectable areas of this city.
Bogotá is one of the ten most dangerous cities in the world from year to year, and is also the most dangerous city in Colombia.
As a result of the uprising in the middle of the last century, the historical center of Bogota was actually destroyed.
In Bogota and its suburbs, there are more than ten million people, that is, one-sixth of all Colombians. Mostly they are slum dwellers.
Bogotá is the most high-altitude city in the world with such a large population.
According to the occupied area Bogota is the third city in the world.
There are practically no skyscrapers and other high-rise buildings in the city.
The Colombian capital is located at an altitude of more than 2.5 kilometers. It’s not as high as the capital of Ecuador, Quito, but still impressive.
Public transport in Bogotá is well developed. The role of the subway is carried out by special long buses, modern and technological, which travel on separate lanes, fenced off from the rest of the roadway. The trip is inexpensive, even by local standards.
The authorities of Bogota actively fight crime. We must admit that progress is evident, but the ideal is still very, very far.
The inhabitants of the slums of Bogota officially do not pay taxes, and also use communal services free of charge – water and electricity. For them pay residents of elite areas – also, by the way, quite officially.
