Fucha River

Fucha River
Location of the Fucha River in Colombia
Etymology	Muysccubun: "her", "female"
Native name	Río Fucha (Spanish)
Location
Country	Colombia
Department	Cundinamarca
Municipalities	Bogotá
Localities	San Cristóbal Antonio Nariño Tunjuelito Ciudad Bolivar Kennedy Bosa
Physical characteristics
Source	Eastern Hills
• coordinates	4°33′48.0″N 74°03′52.7″W / 4.563333°N 74.064639°W / 4.563333; -74.064639
Mouth	Bogotá River
• location	Bosa
• coordinates	4°39′44.6″N 74°09′34.2″W / 4.662389°N 74.159500°W / 4.662389; -74.159500
Basin features
River system	Bogotá River  Magdalena Basin   Caribbean Sea

The Fucha River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a left tributary of the Bogotá River. The river originates in the Eastern Hills of the Colombian capital Bogotá and flows westward through the city into the Bogotá River. It is one of the three important rivers of the city, together with the Tunjuelo and Juan Amarillo Rivers.

Etymology

Fucha is derived from Muysccubun, the indigenous language of the Muisca, who inhabited the Bogotá savanna before the Spanish conquest and means "her" or "female".^[1]

Description

source

mouth

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Source and mouth of the Fucha River on the Bogotá savanna

The Fucha River originates in the locality San Cristóbal in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá and is named in its upper course Quebrada Manzanares, San Cristóbal, Arzobispo and San Francisco River. It flows north from the Tunjuelo River westward and respectively forms the boundary between the localities Rafael Uribe Uribe (south) and Antonio Nariño (north) and Tunjuelito and Ciudad Bolivar (south) and Kennedy (north) of the Colombian capital and is canalised between the Carrera Séptima and the Avenida Boyacá. South of the locality Bosa, the Fucha River flows into the Bogotá River. The Fucha River is highly contaminated.^[2]

Wetlands

Four of the fifteen protected wetlands of Bogotá are located in the Fucha River basin.

mouth

source

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Wetlands within the Fucha River basin

Wetland	Location	Altitude (m)	Area (ha)	Notes	Image
Capellanía	Fontibón	2542	27.05	[3]
Meandro del Say	Fontibón Mosquera	2548	13.6	[4]
Techo	Techo, Kennedy	2545	11.46	[5]
El Burro	Kennedy	2541	18.84	[6]

Gallery

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  Canalised part close to carrera 10
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  Canalised part close to carrera 12
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  Canalised part close to Ciudad Jardín
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  Canalised part
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  Bridge over the Fucha River

See also

• List of rivers of Colombia
• Eastern Hills, Bogotá
• Bogotá savanna
• Juan Amarillo River, Tunjuelo River

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Río Fucha.

• (in Spanish) Sistema Hídrico, Bogotá