Chocontá
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Chocontá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Almeidas Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. It is located on the Pan-American Highway. In 1938 Chocontá had a population of 2,041.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Chocontá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Parque Principal de Chocontá.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main square of Chocontá
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Chocontá (Cundinamarca).svg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Escudo de Chocontá.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Cundinamarca - Chocontá.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town inside Cundinamarca Department of Colombia
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- Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cundinamarca
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Almeidas Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Almeidas Province
- Population
- 25257
- Area
- 301
- Elevation
- 2689
- Body of water
- Bogotá River
- Capital of
- Almeidas Province
- Official website
- www.choconta-cundinamarca.gov.co
- Image
- Parque Principal de Chocontá.JPG
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- Commons category
- Chocontá
- inception
- 1563-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Chocontá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Almeidas Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. It is located on the Pan-American Highway. In 1938 Chocontá had a population of 2,041.
== Etymology == In the Chibcha language of the Muisca, Chocontá means: "Farmlands of the good ally" or "Garden of the neighbour".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chocontá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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