Guatavita
Sign in to saveGuatavita is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Guavio Province of the department of Cundinamarca. Guatavita is located 75 km northeast of the capital Bogotá. It borders Sesquilé and Machetá in the north, Gachetá and Junín in the east, Guasca in the south and in the west are Tocancipá and Gachancipá.
Key facts
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- Guatavita
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- Municipality and town
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- Coliseum of Guatavita
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- Escudo_guatativa.jpg
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- Colombia - Cundinamarca - Guatavita.svg
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- 250px
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- Location of the municipality and town of Guatavita in the 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
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- Guavio Province
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- Mayor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Cundinamarca Department
- Population
- 6963
- Area
- 247.3
- Elevation
- 2668
- Official website
- www.guatavita-cundinamarca.gov.co/index.shtml#3
- Image
- Guatavita - Coliseo.JPG
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- Commons category
- Guatavita
- inception
- 1593-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Etymology
- Economy
- Guatavita Lake
- Climate
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Guatavita is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Guavio Province of the department of Cundinamarca. Guatavita is located 75 km northeast of the capital Bogotá. It borders Sesquilé and Machetá in the north, Gachetá and Junín in the east, Guasca in the south and in the west are Tocancipá and Gachancipá.
== History == Before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, the central plateau in the Colombian Andes, the area was inhabited by the Muisca organized in their Muisca Confederation. Guatavita was ruled by a cacique who was a powerful figure consulted by the zipas of Bacatá and the zaques of Hunza. Guatavita was specialized in gold working. An important temple honouring Sué, the Sun god in the religion of the Muisca was constructed in Guatavita.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guatavita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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