Recetor
Sign in to saveRecetor is a Colombian municipality in the Department of Casanare. Its jurisdiction has an area of and a population of 4072. It is located on the eastern slope of the Colombian Andes, with an altitude of . It has an average temperature of . ==History== Recetor was founded on 17 March, 1740 by Jesuit Missionaries, and was officially made into a municipality in 1925. The first colonists arrived from the department of Boyacá, coming mostly from the municipalities of Miraflores, Berbeo, Paez, and Campohermosa.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Recetor
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Casanare - Recetor.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Recetor in the Casanare 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
- Casanare Department
- Settlement.timezone
- Colombia Standard Time
- Settlement.utc_offset
- -5
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Official name
- Recetor
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Casanare Department
- Population
- 1592
- Area
- 179
- Elevation
- 971
- Official website
- www.recetor-casanare.gov.co/index.shtml
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- Recetor
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- Recetor
- inception
- 1740-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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Recetor is a Colombian municipality in the Department of Casanare. Its jurisdiction has an area of and a population of 4072. It is located on the eastern slope of the Colombian Andes, with an altitude of . It has an average temperature of . ==History== Recetor was founded on 17 March, 1740 by Jesuit Missionaries, and was officially made into a municipality in 1925. The first colonists arrived from the department of Boyacá, coming mostly from the municipalities of Miraflores, Berbeo, Paez, and Campohermosa.
==Geography== Recetor has an area of 182 square kilometers, of which are urban and are rural. Recetor borders the department of Boyacá, to the east by the municipality of Aguazul, to the south by the municipality of Tauramena and to the southeast by the municipality of Chameza
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Recetor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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