Tópaga
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Tópaga () is a town and municipality in the Sugamuxi Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Tópaga is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with the urban center at an altitude of while the topography varies over the municipality from to . It borders Nobsa and Corrales in the west, in the east Mongua and Gámeza, in the north Gámeza and in the south Monguí and Sogamoso. Department capital Tunja is away. Chicamocha River flows through Tópaga.
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Vinony's link graph records 150 inbound references to Tópaga, and connects out to Puerto Boyacá, Colombia and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1593 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Municipalities of Boyacá Department and Populated places established in 1593.
Vinony links it to 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tópaga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tópaga.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Tópaga
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Tópaga (Boyacá).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Topaga.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Tópaga 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
- Sugamuxi Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Álvaro Henry Barrera Díaz(2020-2023)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Boyacá Department
- Area
- 37
- Elevation
- 2900
- Official website
- www.topaga-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Topaga.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tópaga
- inception
- 1593-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- History
- Economy
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Tópaga () is a town and municipality in the Sugamuxi Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Tópaga is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with the urban center at an altitude of while the topography varies over the municipality from to . It borders Nobsa and Corrales in the west, in the east Mongua and Gámeza, in the north Gámeza and in the south Monguí and Sogamoso. Department capital Tunja is away. Chicamocha River flows through Tópaga.
== Etymology == The name Tópaga comes from Chibcha and means "Behind father river".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tópaga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations