Soacha, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia

Modern development

🇨🇴 Soacha is an autonomous municipality of the department of Cundinamarca, and part of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá. It has an important industrial zone and is home to mostly working-class families. Soacha borders Bojacá and Mosquera to the north, Sibaté and Pasca to the south, to the east the capital Bogotá and to the west Granada and San Antonio del Tequendama.

Soacha was inhabited first by indigenous groups during the Herrera Period and later became an important village in the Muisca Confederation, the former country of the Muisca before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. The zipa of Bacatá (now known as Bogotá) ruled over Soacha.

Modern Soacha was founded on 15 August 1600. It gained national notoriety after the presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán was assassinated on August 18, 1989 while visiting the city during his presidential campaign.

Also during 1989, the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 happened in Soacha, killing everyone on-board plus three Soacha residents. The bombing was planned by Cartel de Medellin leader Pablo Escobar, who intended to murder presidential candidate César Gaviria, who was supposed to be on board. Gaviria had decided not to fly and instead went on to become President of Colombia.

In 2008, the 'false positives' scandal broke when 22 men from Soacha who had been recruited for work were found dead several hundreds of miles away. They had been killed by the military and presented to authorities as guerrilla fighters (insurgents) killed in battle, in order to increase action head counts. Similar cases have since appeared all over the country.

Modern development Ciudad Verde is a development project for the lower middle class (estrato 3) residents of Soacha with housing, parks and playgrounds. The project started in 2010 and is scheduled to be finished at the end of 2016.

Soacha, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia 
<b>Soacha, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia</b>
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Soacha has a population of over 522,442 people. Soacha also forms one of the centres of the wider Bogotá metropolitan area which has a population of over 10,978,000 people. Soacha is situated 21 km south-west of the centre of Bogotá.

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Antipodal to Soacha is: 105.779,-4.587

Locations Near: Soacha -74.2214,4.58722

🇨🇴 Bogotá -74.067,4.583 d: 17.2  

🇨🇴 Villavicencio -73.633,4.15 d: 81.3  

🇨🇴 Chocontá -73.667,5.133 d: 86.4  

🇨🇴 Ibagué -75.217,4.438 d: 111.6  

🇨🇴 Tunja -73.367,5.533 d: 141.5  

🇨🇴 Manizales -75.55,5.1 d: 157.9  

🇨🇴 Armenia -75.672,4.536 d: 160.9  

🇨🇴 Pereira -75.683,4.8 d: 163.7  

🇨🇴 Cartago -75.912,4.747 d: 188.2  

🇨🇴 La Plata -75.3,2.983 d: 214.8  

Antipodal to: Soacha 105.779,-4.587

🇮🇩 Bandar Lampung 105.267,-5.45 d: 19903.7  

🇮🇩 Pringsewu 104.961,-5.356 d: 19890.5  

🇮🇩 Cilegon 106.011,-6.003 d: 19855.6  

🇮🇩 Serang 106.15,-6.117 d: 19840.1  

🇮🇩 Liwa 104.083,-5.033 d: 19820.8  

🇮🇩 Tangerang 106.633,-6.167 d: 19815.6  

🇮🇩 Ciapus 106.467,-6.267 d: 19813.4  

🇮🇩 Kapuk 106.751,-6.139 d: 19811.7  

🇮🇩 Jakarta Barat 106.759,-6.168 d: 19808.5  

🇮🇩 Kota Tua 106.813,-6.135 d: 19808.3  

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