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The integration of the Bogotá–Cundinamarca Metropolitan Region: beyond a legal fact

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/30730252.8589
Christopher Ramirez Salazar Universidad Externado de Colombia
Esther Constanza Venegas Castro Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

The integration of the Bogota - Cundinamarca Metropolitan Region seeks to coordinate efforts between Bogota and its surrounding municipalities, such as Soacha, to address urban and social challenges. This process focuses on improving mobility, the provision of public services and economic development, promoting effective governance and sustainable development in the region. However, this initiative must be materialized through the implementation of metropolitan policies in order to have an impact on reality. In this sense, this working paper proposes a formative evaluation of the integration of Soacha to the Metropolitan Region and how projects have been formulated around the municipality. In this way, the evaluation found that there is a deficient application of the integration, where there are no frameworks with guidelines to develop programs and projects, but it responds in part to the recent creation of the Region and the annexation of Soacha to it.

keywords: metropolitan area, Bogotá, metropolitan governance, interdependence, Soacha
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Ramirez Salazar, C., & Venegas Castro, E. C. . (2026). The integration of the Bogotá–Cundinamarca Metropolitan Region: beyond a legal fact. Revista Arista Jurídico-Política, 1(1), 109-121. https://doi.org/10.22490/30730252.8589 (Original work published 2024)

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