Bogotá River

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/bogot-river

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Where is the Bogotá River?Cundinamarca department, Colombia
2. What is the capital city adjacent?Bogotá
3. What is the hydrological classification?Right tributary of the Magdalena River
4. Why is the Bogotá River polluted?Many people and factories in the area dump waste into the river, including sewage, industrial chemicals, and farm runoff. This pollution lowers the oxygen in the water and hurts fish and other wildlife.
5. How does the Bogotá River help people?The river supplies water for homes, farms, and factories, and has been used for transport and farming for many years. Even though it is dirty now, it still provides a vital resource for millions of residents.

Watershed: The entire area of land that drains water into a particular river system or body of water.
Tributary: A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake, contributing to its volume.
Effluents: Liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or the sea.
Eutrophication: The excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.