The zip codes in Bogotá, Colombia, start at 110111 and terminate at 112041, with each zip code denoting a district with irregular boundaries. The first two numbers are the national department, 11 is Bogotá’s special postal code, and the following four numbers are the local post’s defined areas. Although Colombia has a zip code system, it is not always used.
Each major municipality is issued upwards of 100 distinct postal codes, and rural areas are assigned hundreds of thousands of postal codes based on geographic region, with about a million unique postal codes across Colombia’s 35 departments. Colombian postal codes are six digits long, with the first two digits corresponding to one of 35 departments, the second two digits corresponding to one of up to 89 postal zones per department, and the third two digits encoding up to 100 postal districts per zone, similar to ZIP codes in the United States.
Although Colombia has postal codes and a centralised mail system, these services are rarely used due to significant corruption and misuse. Larger cities, including Bogata, have more active postal services, albeit even these can be inconsistent and unreliable.
Contacting the local authorities for a postal code for a certain mailing address or municipality is the quickest and most trustworthy source of information. Postal code manifests are available in print and online from Colombia’s National Postal Service and other third-party organisations.
Bogotá was founded in 1538 and is a Spanish-speaking city in Colombia. The city is the result of the Spanish conquest of Teusaquillo, a tiny settlement founded by Mesoamerican migrants. Tribes fought the colonisation at first, but the city survived. Bogotá eventually grew to become Colombia’s capital, with a population of almost eight million people.
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