Sotaquira
Sign in to saveSotaquirá is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Sotaquirá is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes with the small urban center at an altitude of at from Tunja. Sotaquirá is a highly rural municipality with 90% of the people living in rural areas and about 50% more cows than inhabitants. The municipality borders Tuta in the east, Paipa in the north, Gámbita, Santander in the west and Cómbita in the south.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sotaquirá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
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- Flag of Sotaquirá (Boyacá).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Sotaquira.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
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- Location of the municipality and town of Sotaquirá in the Boyacá Department of Colombia
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- 300
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- Location in Colombia
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Boyacá Department
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Boyacá Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Henry Santiago Suta Toca(2020-2023)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 20 December 1582
- Settlement.founder
- Friar Arturo Cabeza de Vaca
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Boyacá Department
- Area
- 288.65
- Elevation
- 2860
- Official website
- www.sotaquira-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
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- Commons category
- Sotaquirá
- inception
- 1582-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Sotaquirá is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Sotaquirá is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes with the small urban center at an altitude of at from Tunja. Sotaquirá is a highly rural municipality with 90% of the people living in rural areas and about 50% more cows than inhabitants. The municipality borders Tuta in the east, Paipa in the north, Gámbita, Santander in the west and Cómbita in the south.
== History == Located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Sotaquirá before the Spanish conquest was inhabited by the Muisca organized in their loose Muisca Confederation. Sotaquirá was ruled by the zaque of Hunza, present-day department capital Tunja. Modern Sotaquirá was founded on December 20, 1582 by friar Arturo Cabeza de Vaca.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sotaquira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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