Arcabuco
Sign in to saveArcabuco is a town and municipality in the Ricaurte Province, part of the Colombian Department of Boyacá. Arcabuco is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with the urban centre at an altitude of . The municipality borders Moniquirá and Gámbita in the north, Villa de Leyva and Chíquiza in the south, Cómbita in the east and Gachantivá and Villa de Leyva in the west. The department capital Tunja is to the south.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 155 inbound references to Arcabuco, and connects out to Puerto Boyacá, Muisca rulers and Colombia.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Municipalities of Boyacá Department and Populated places established in 1856.
Vinony links it to 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Arcabuco
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Parque Arcabuco.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Central square and church of Arcabuco
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Arcabuco.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Arcabuco.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Arcabuco 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
- Ricaurte Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Yamith Rodrigo Rodriguez Lopez(2020–2023)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Official name
- Arcabuco
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Boyacá Department
- Population
- 5240
- Area
- 155
- Elevation
- 2739
- Official website
- www.arcabuco-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Parque Arcabuco.jpg
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- Commons category
- Arcabuco
- inception
- 1856-10-22
- native label
- Arcabuco
- language of work or name
- Arawakan
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Economy
- Climate
- Named after Arcabuco
- Born in Arcabuco
- Gallery
- References
Arcabuco is a town and municipality in the Ricaurte Province, part of the Colombian Department of Boyacá. Arcabuco is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with the urban centre at an altitude of . The municipality borders Moniquirá and Gámbita in the north, Villa de Leyva and Chíquiza in the south, Cómbita in the east and Gachantivá and Villa de Leyva in the west. The department capital Tunja is to the south.
== Etymology == The name Arcabuco comes from Chibcha and means either "Place of the intricate scrublands" or "Place enclosed by the hills".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arcabuco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations