Lenguazaque
Sign in to saveLenguazaque is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Lenguazaque is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, part of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes at a distance of from the capital Bogotá. It borders Guachetá in the north, Ubaté in the west, Cucunubá in the south and Villapinzón in the east.
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Vinony's link graph records 147 inbound references to Lenguazaque, and connects out to Colombia, Bogotá and maize.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department.
Vinony links it to 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Lenguazaque
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lenguazaque centro.jpg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Lenguazaque.svg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Escudo de Lenguazaque.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Cundinamarca - Lenguazaque.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town inside Cundinamarca Department of Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- 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
- Ubaté Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Camilo Andrés Lara Gómez
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Cundinamarca Department
- Population
- 10268
- Area
- 153.6
- Elevation
- 2589
- Founded by
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
- Official website
- www.lenguazaque-cundinamarca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Lenguazaque.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lenguazaque
- inception
- 1537-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- Economy
- References
Lenguazaque is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Lenguazaque is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, part of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes at a distance of from the capital Bogotá. It borders Guachetá in the north, Ubaté in the west, Cucunubá in the south and Villapinzón in the east.
== History == In the time of the Muisca Confederation, before the Spanish conquest, Lenguazaque was ruled by the zaque of Hunza, currently known as Tunja, Boyacá. Modern Lenguazaque was founded by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada early on in his conquest of the central highlands of Colombia, on March 13, 1537.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lenguazaque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations