Gachancipá
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Gachancipá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre is located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at from the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders Suesca and Nemocón in the north, Tocancipá in the south, Sesquilé and Guatavita in the east and Zipaquirá in the west.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Gachancipá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
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- Parque principal Gachancipá.jpg
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- Central square
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- Flag of Gachancipá.svg
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- Escudo de Gachancipá.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Cundinamarca - Gachancipá.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
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- Location of the municipality and town inside Cundinamarca department of Colombia
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- Colombia
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- 250
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- Location in Colombia
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- Country
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- Department
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- Cundinamarca
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Savanna Province
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- Mayor
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Cundinamarca Department
- Area
- 44
- Elevation
- 2568
- Official website
- www.gachancipa-cundinamarca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Parque principal Gachancipá.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gachancipá
- inception
- 1612-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gachancipá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre is located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at from the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders Suesca and Nemocón in the north, Tocancipá in the south, Sesquilé and Guatavita in the east and Zipaquirá in the west.
== Etymology == The name Gachancipá comes from Chibcha and means "Pottery of the zipa".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gachancipá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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