Tunjuelo River





















































Tunjuelo River
Río Tunjuelo, Río Tunjuelito


Tunjuelito River

RioTunjuelito.JPG


Tunjuelo River is located in Colombia
Tunjuelo River


Location of the Tunjuelo River in Colombia

Etymology
Muysccubun: "cerro de los tunjos"
Location
Country
 Colombia
Department Cundinamarca
Municipalities Bogotá
Localities
Sumapaz, Usme, Ciudad Bolívar,
Tunjuelito, Fontibón
Physical characteristics
Source Sumapaz Páramo
 - coordinates
4°18′25.5″N 74°07′50.2″W / 4.307083°N 74.130611°W / 4.307083; -74.130611Coordinates: 4°18′25.5″N 74°07′50.2″W / 4.307083°N 74.130611°W / 4.307083; -74.130611

Mouth Bogotá River
 - coordinates
 4°37′45.8″N 74°13′20.4″W / 4.629389°N 74.222333°W / 4.629389; -74.222333
Basin features
River system
Bogotá River
 Magdalena Basin
  Caribbean Sea

The Tunjuelo or Tunjuelito River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a left tributary of the Bogotá River. The river, with a length of 73 kilometres (45 mi) originates in the Sumapaz Páramo and flows northward through the Usme Synclinal to enter the Colombian capital Bogotá. There, the river is mostly canalised flowing westward into the Bogotá River. It is one of the three main rivers of the city, together with the Fucha and Juan Amarillo Rivers.




Contents






  • 1 Etymology


  • 2 Description


    • 2.1 Geology


    • 2.2 Wetlands




  • 3 Gallery


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


    • 5.1 Bibliography




  • 6 Further reading


  • 7 External links





Etymology


The names Tunjuelo and Tunjuelito ("little Tunjuelo") are derived from the Cerro de los Tunjos, also Los Tunjos Lake, named after the tunjos, the religious votive figurines of the indigenous language of the Muisca, who inhabited the Bogotá savanna before the Spanish conquest.[1]



Description




Tunjuelo River is located in the Bogotá savanna

source

source



mouth

mouth




Source and mouth of the Tunjuelo River on the Bogotá savanna


The Tunjuelo River has a total length of 73 kilometres (45 mi) and originates in the Sumapaz Páramo, in the southern part of Bogotá.[2] It flows through the southern part of the Colombian capital, south of the Fucha River, and has the largest drainage basin of the rivers of Bogotá.[3] The river flows through the Usme Synclinal, where the type localities of various geological formations (among others the Marichuela Formation) are situated. The Tunjuelo River forms the border between the localities Usme and Ciudad Bolivar and between the namesake locality Tunjuelito and Ciudad Bolívar. The Tunjuelo River is highly contaminated.[4]




Geology


Main article: Eastern Hills, Bogotá § Geology

The Tunjuelo River valley hosts the type localities of various geologic formations of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense.









































Age
 Formation
 Lithologies

Notes
Pleistocene Tunjuelo Formation
Conglomerates, sandstones, shales
[5]
Early Pliocene Marichuela Formation Conglomerates
[6]

Late Miocene
Early Oligocene Usme Formation
Shales, sandstones, conglomerates
[6]

Late Eocene
Regadera Formation
Sandstones, conglomerates, shales
[7]

Early Eocene
Bogotá Formation
Mudstones, shales, siltstones, sandstones
[8]

Late Paleocene


Wetlands




Tunjuelo River is located in Bogotá
Tunjuelo River

Tunjuelo River

Tunjuelo River


mouth

mouth





Wetlands in the Tunjuelo River basin



Main article: Wetlands of Bogotá

Three of the fifteen protected wetlands of Bogotá are located in the Tunjuelo River basin.































Wetland
 Location
 Altitude (m)
 Area (ha)
 Notes

La Vaca
Kennedy
 2548
 7.96
 [9]

La Isla
 Bosa
 2550
 7.7
 [10]

Tibanica
Bosa
Soacha
 2542
 28.8
 [11]



Gallery






  • Tunjuelo River in Ciudad Bolívar







  • Tunjuelo River







  • Tunjuelo River







  • Tunjuelo River in Tunjuelito







  • Canalised part of the river







See also




  • List of rivers of Colombia

  • Eastern Hills, Bogotá


  • Bogotá savanna, Sumapaz Páramo


  • Fucha River, Juan Amarillo River



References





  1. ^ Osorio Osorio, 2007, p.29


  2. ^ Osorio Osorio, 2007, p.12


  3. ^ (in Spanish) Entre ríos y quebradas Bogotá tiene 198 cuerpos de agua ¿Los conoce?


  4. ^ (in Spanish) Tunjuelo: olores ofensivos


  5. ^ Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.71


  6. ^ ab Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.65


  7. ^ Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.60


  8. ^ Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.57


  9. ^ Humedal La Vaca


  10. ^ Humedal La Isla


  11. ^ Humedal Tibanica




Bibliography




  • Montoya Arenas, Diana María, and Germán Alfonso Reyes Torres. 2005. Geología de la Sabana de Bogotá, 1–104. INGEOMINAS.


  • Osorio Osorio, Julián Antonio. 2007. El río Tunjuelo en la historia de Bogotá, 1900-1990, 1-116. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá. Accessed 2017-02-28.



Further reading




  • Bayona, Germán; Omar Montenegro; Agustín Cardona; Carlos Jaramillo; Felipe Lamus; Sara Morón; Luiz Quiroz; María C. Ruíz, and Victor Valencia and Mauricio Parra. 2010. Estratigrafía, procedencia, subsidencia y exhumación de las unidades paleógenas en el Sinclinal de Usme, sur de la zona axial de la Cordillera Oriental - Stratigraphy, provenance, subsidence and exhumation of the Paleogene succession in the Usme Syncline, southern axial zone of the Eastern Cordillera. Geología Colombiana 35. 5-35. Accessed 2017-03-16.


  • Guerrero Uscátegui, Alberto Lobo. 1992. Geología e Hidrogeología de Santafé de Bogotá y su Sabana, 1–20. Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros.



External links







  • (in Spanish) Sistema Hídrico, Bogotá









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