Ráquira
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Ráquira, is a municipality and town in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province. Ráquira is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense and the urban center at an altitude of . It borders Tinjacá and Sutamarchán in the north, Guachetá, Cundinamarca in the south, in the east Sáchica and Samacá and in the west San Miguel de Sema and Lake Fúquene.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ráquira
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Plaza principal e iglesia de Ráquira (Boyacá).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of Ráquira
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Ráquira (Boyacá).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Raquira.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Ráquira in the Boyacá Department of Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Boyacá Department
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ricaurte Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- José Hernán Sierra Buitrago(2020-2023)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Boyacá Department
- Area
- 233
- Elevation
- 2150
- Official website
- www.raquira-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Plaza principal e iglesia de Ráquira (Boyacá).jpg
Show 3 more facts
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
- Commons category
- Ráquira
- inception
- 1580-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ráquira, is a municipality and town in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province. Ráquira is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense and the urban center at an altitude of . It borders Tinjacá and Sutamarchán in the north, Guachetá, Cundinamarca in the south, in the east Sáchica and Samacá and in the west San Miguel de Sema and Lake Fúquene.
== Etymology == In Chibcha, Ráquira means "Village of the pans".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ráquira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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