Subachoque River

River in Cundinamarca, Colombia

4°51′58.6″N 74°18′16.1″W / 4.866278°N 74.304472°W / 4.866278; -74.304472 MouthBojacá River

• location

Mosquera

• coordinates

4°40′48.7″N 74°15′23.2″W / 4.680194°N 74.256444°W / 4.680194; -74.256444Basin featuresRiver systemBojacá River
Bogotá River
Magdalena Basin
Caribbean Sea

The Subachoque River is a river on the Bogotá savanna and a right tributary of the Bogotá River.

Etymology

Subachoque is derived from the indigenous language of the Muisca, who inhabited the Bogotá savanna before the Spanish conquest and means either "work of the Sun" of "farmfields of the front".^[1]

Description

source

mouth

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Source and mouth of the Subachoque River on the Bogotá savanna

The Subachoque River originates in the easternmost part of Facatativá, Cundinamarca, west of Bogotá. It flows through the municipalities El Rosal, and Madrid before joining the Bojacá River in Mosquera and forming the Balsillas downstream part of the Bojacá River, flowing into the Bogotá River.