1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Colombia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Soacha—655,025, America/Bogota, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: human settlement in Colombia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Soacha is GeoNames ID 3667905. Its recorded administrative path is Soacha → Cundinamarca → Colombia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Soacha occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-10-03; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Soacha ranks 848 by recorded population. Inside the 12 selected Colombia entries it ranks 7; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 132. Its 655,025 population value is 0.91 times the 716,066 median for the country cohort and 0.80 times the 816,326 regional median. Soacha sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Colombia entries. Soacha's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Soacha's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bogotá at 15.346 km with 7,674,366 recorded people; Ibagué at 110.468 km with 529,635 recorded people; Medellín at 238.306 km with 1,999,979 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 222.96 km. Compared with Bogotá, Soacha's recorded population is 0.09 times as large. Against Soacha, Bogotá follows Bogota D.C. → Colombia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Soacha's. Against Soacha, Ibagué follows Ibague → Tolima Department → Colombia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Soacha's. Against Soacha, Medellín follows Medellin → Antioquia → Colombia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Colombia cohort, uses the shared America/Bogota identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Soacha's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 210 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Soacha's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3667905, the coordinate pair 4.5794 / 74.2168, country rank 7 of 12, and neighbor GeoNames 3688689 at 15.346 km bind Soacha to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Soacha's reference point is 4.5794° north and 74.2168° west. The IANA identifier America/Bogota is shared by 12 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Soacha's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Soacha's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Soacha's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Soacha, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Soacha's closest other entries in this atlas are Bogotá (15.346 km), Ibagué (110.468 km), Medellín (238.306 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-03; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.