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Ciudad Bolivar District
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Ciudad Bolivar is the 19th district of Bogotá city. It has its beginnings in the 1940s with the consolidation of informal settlements in the territory. It was considered an illegal extension of the city until it became part of Bogota's administrative division with the Colombian Constitution of 1991.
The district is divided into 8 UPZ (Zonal Planning Units) classified into two categories: The industrial and facilities areas and incomplete residential urbanization areas. The El Mochuelo and Monte Blanco units belong to the first, and the Aborizadora, San Francisco, Lucero, El Tesoro, Ismael Perdomo, and Jerusalén to the second. The last category corresponds to 31% of the total number of informal settlements in Bogotá.
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La Secretaría General de Hacienda, through the 2019 monitoring polygons, has followed up and monitored areas susceptible or in the process of illegal development in the capital. In this district specifically, this control has been carried out with 42 polygons and an area of 595.09 hectares.
Because it is one of the districts with the largest number of informal settlements, the city administration has tried to focus its action using programs to improve the settlements and has proposed participatory architecture projects.
