Monserrate [SEP] named after
Monserrate
Monserrate (named after Catalan homonym mountain "Montserrat") is a hill that dominates the city center of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. It rises to above the sea level, where there is a church (built in the 17th century) with a shrine, devoted to "El Señor Caído" ("The Fallen Lord").
The hill, already considered sacred in pre-Colombian times when the area was inhabited by the indigenous Muisca, is a pilgrim destination, as well as a
Bogotá Anticlinal, and showing a vertical stratigraphic displacement of at least . The Sabana Formation, named after the Bogotá savanna were deposited in the Pleistocene paleolake Lake Humboldt, of which the many wetlands and the Bogotá River are the present-day remainders.
The fault mainly cuts Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks and, to some extent, early Quaternary deposits. The fault produces strong slope changes between different geologic units on both sides of the fault plane and displays degraded fault scarps, especially the well-known Monserrate, the location where