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Sign in to saveTunja () is a municipality and city on the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, in the region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 130 km northeast of Bogotá. In 2018 the municipality had a population of 172,548. It is the capital of Boyacá department and the Central Boyacá Province. Tunja is an important educational centre of well-known universities. In the time before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, there was an indigenous settlement, called Hunza, seat of the hoa Quemuenchatocha, conquered by the Spanish conquistadors on August 20, 1537. The Spanish city was founded by captain
Tunja is the capital city of Boyacá department in Colombia's Andes mountains, located about 130 kilometers northeast of Bogotá, and serves as an important educational hub with several well-known universities. The city has a population of about 172,500 and was built on the site of an indigenous Muisca settlement that the Spanish conquistadors conquered in 1537.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Tunja
- Settlement.type
- Municipality and city
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Tunja.svg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Tunja.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Tunja.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Tunja in the department of Boyacá
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Boyacá
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Boyacá Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Mikhail Krasnov(2024-2027)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 6 August 1539 ( Years ago)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- Tunjana
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Central Boyacá Province
- Continent
- South America
- Population
- 68905
- Area
- 118
- Elevation
- 2782
- Capital of
- Muisca Confederations
- Official website
- www.tunja-boyaca.gov.co
- Image
- Collage Tunja.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Valledupar
- postal code
- 150001–150009
- topic's main category
- Category:Tunja
- Commons category
- Tunja
- category for people born here
- Q17607021
- Commons gallery
- Tunja
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Tunja
- inception
- 1539-08-06
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On the map
3 mapped locations