Sports

Students play pick-up soccer match on the National University's campus.

You’re a sports fan? An athlete? Just like participating?

To move your body, there’s a public swimming pool in the Belén neighborhood just south of La Candelaria and another in Simon Bolivar Park. (However, the neighborhood is not the best, so go with a local or take a taxi.) Jog in Simón Bolívar or the National Park (but stay in the National Park’s lower areas).

Or, take a bike tour with Bogotá Bike Tours. On Sundays and holidays, ride, walk or skate in La Ciclovia, when main avenues are shut to cars.

Tejo Style

Colombia’s official national sport is tejo, in which a big iron disk gets hurled at a clay pit decorated with envelopes full of gunpowder.

But, outdoors, fútbol’s the main thing here.

In Colombia, football/soccer is king. Watch informal fútbol games in the National Park and the National University, and futbolito (played on a cement pitch) all over town, including La Candelaria’s La Concordia neighborhoof, either above or below the Mercado de la Concordia on 14th St.

Bogotá’s two national league football (soccer) teams are Millonarios and Independiente Santa Fe. They play home games in the El Campín Stadium, located near the National University, in the Chapinero neighborhood.

The Colombia Football League’s website is:

http://www.colombia.com/futbol/ It contains game results and schedules.

The capital’s own league is the Bogota Football League

http://www.lifutbol.org/

Bogotanos do also play other sports, including hockey on skates, tennis, rugby, even ultimate frisby….