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Engativá, was a municipality of Cundinamarca that became a locality of Bogotá, Colombia when Bogotá was made "Special District" (today "Capital District").
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Geographical location
Engativá is limited to the north by the Salitre River with Suba, to the east by Avenue 68 and Bosa, to the south by Eldorado Avenue and Fontibón, and to the west by the Bogotá River.
Etymology
Engativá is either derived from Ingativá; cacique Inga; "Land of the Sun", or from the Chibcha words Engue-tivá; engue is "delicious" and tivá is "captain"; "captain of the delicious [people]".
History
Engativá was a village in the confederation of the Muisca. Modern Engativá was founded in 1537. It has become on a rural territory, people used to work as a farmers of Bogotá in 1571. The church of the town was built in honor of the pope Clemente XII on 1638 and from 1737 it was named the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores's Sanctuary. The church was destroyed by earthquakes, but it was rebuilt in 1960.