Chipaque
Sign in to saveChipaque is a municipality and town in the Eastern Province of the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. The municipality of is located at an altitude of in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes with its westernmost part situated in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá. The Colombian capital is west of Chipaque. Chipaque borders Bogotá's southern locality Usme in the west. To the east, Chipaque borders Cáqueza, in the south Une and in the north Ubaque. The average temperature is .
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Chipaque
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Church Exterior - Chipaque - Cundinamarca.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of Chipaque
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Chipaque (Cundinamarca).svg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Escudo de Chipaque.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Cundinamarca - Chipaque.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
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- Location of Chipaque inside Cundinamarca, Colombia
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- Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
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- Location in Colombia
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cundinamarca
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Eastern Province
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- Mayor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Cundinamarca Department
- Area
- 139.45
- Elevation
- 2162
- Official website
- www.chipaque-cundinamarca.gov.co/index.shtml
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- Commons category
- Chipaque
- inception
- 1600-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Chipaque is a municipality and town in the Eastern Province of the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. The municipality of is located at an altitude of in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes with its westernmost part situated in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá. The Colombian capital is west of Chipaque. Chipaque borders Bogotá's southern locality Usme in the west. To the east, Chipaque borders Cáqueza, in the south Une and in the north Ubaque. The average temperature is .
== Etymology == The name Chipaque is derived from the word Chipapabacue, Muysccubun for "Forest of our ancestors".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chipaque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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