Ubaté
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Ubaté (originally Villa San Diego de Ubaté) is a town and municipality in the Ubaté Province, part of Cundinamarca Department, Colombia. Ubaté is the capital of the province with the same name and situated in the Ubaté–Chiquinquirá Valley of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. The urban centre is located at an altitude of and from the capital Bogotá. The province borders the department of Boyacá in the north, the Rionegro Province in the west, the Central Savanna Province in the south and in the east and southeast the Almeidas Province.
Key facts
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- Ubaté
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- Municipality and town
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- View of Ubaté
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- 250px
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- Location of the municipality and town inside Cundinamarca Department of Colombia
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- Colombia
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- 250
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- Location in Colombia
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- Cundinamarca
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- Province
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- Ubaté Province
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- Mayor
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Ubaté (originally Villa San Diego de Ubaté) is a town and municipality in the Ubaté Province, part of Cundinamarca Department, Colombia. Ubaté is the capital of the province with the same name and situated in the Ubaté–Chiquinquirá Valley of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. The urban centre is located at an altitude of and from the capital Bogotá. The province borders the department of Boyacá in the north, the Rionegro Province in the west, the Central Savanna Province in the south and in the east and southeast the Almeidas Province.
== Etymology == The name Ubaté comes from the native name "Ebate" meaning "Bloodied land" or "Sower of the mouth".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ubaté” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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