Of the disturbing and conflictive relations of the Bogota citizens with their waters

De las perturbadoras y conflictivas relaciones de los bogotanos con sus aguas

The purpose of this text is to account for the gap between being and being, historically manifested in the city of Bogotá from its foundation in 1538 to the present day. The waters are part of that being in the territory and generates ways of being. The indifference and abandonment of the rivers expressed through pollution, tubing, and its consequences: floods, foul smells, overflows, scarcity, are images that do not contribute to building that being from being in the territory. To trace this gap between the people of Bogotá and its forty-nine water currents, we present the key moments of this relationship, from the poetic conception of water created by the first inhabitants of the savannah, the break suffered with the foundation of the city and the beginning of a process where water is assumed as a resource, prevailing the interest to exploit it. In this way, Bogotá has not developed its aesthetic and spiritual attributes, and has gone after strange images and models to its territory.