Tocaima
Sign in to saveTocaima () refers to both a city and a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tocaima
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City and Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Iglesia Tocaima.jpg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Tocaima.svg
- Settlement.flag_alt
- Flag of Tocaima
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Tocaima.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Cundinamarca - Tocaima.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the town and municipality of Tocaima within Cundinamarca Department
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cundinamarca
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- March 20, 1544
- Settlement.established_title2
- Destroyed
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Upper Magdalena Province
- Population
- 18790
- Area
- 246
- Elevation
- 530
- Body of water
- Bogotá River
- Official website
- www.tocaima-cundinamarca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Parroquia san Jacinto.jpg
- Dialing code
- 83
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- Commons category
- Tocaima
- inception
- 1544-03-20
- language of work or name
- Cariban
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- City
- History
- Notable people
- References
Tocaima () refers to both a city and a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia.
==City== The city of Tocaima was founded on March 20, 1544 as San Dionisio de los Caballeros de Tocaima by the Spanish explorer Hernán Venegas Carrillo. This city is most well known for being a vacation site during religious holidays, especially for college students from Bogotá and other surrounding areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tocaima” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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