Locality of Bogotá in Bogotá D.C., Colombia
Puente Aranda
Puente Aranda is the 16th location of the Capital District of the Colombian capital city, Bogotá.
It is located in the center part of Bogotá. This district is mostly inhabited by lower middle and working class residents. The district was named after an old bridge in the hacienda of Juan Aranda over the "Chinúa River", now called the San Francisco River, that dates to the 16th century. Puente Aranda has 1,724 hectares of area which are almost entirely urban. This locality has more than 300,000 inhabitants, 5% of the total urban area inhabitants of Bogota.
How locals move
Getting around Puente Aranda the local way
- Get aroundSome of the roads outside Bogota are quite basic and 4WD can be an advantage.
From Wikivoyage: Cundinamarca, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-04.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Bernard Gagnon (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.