Chivatá
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Chivatá is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre is situated at an altitude of on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at from the department capital Tunja. It borders Oicatá, Toca and Tuta in the north, Toca and Siachoque in the east, Siachoque and Soracá in the south and Tunja in the west.
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Vinony's link graph records 150 inbound references to Chivatá, and connects out to Puerto Boyacá, Colombia and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1556 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Municipalities of Boyacá Department and Populated places established in 1556.
Vinony links it to 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Chivatá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
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- Chivatá Parque.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Central square of Chivatá
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- BanderaChivatá.png
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Chivata.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Chivatá in the Boyacá Department of Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Colombia
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Boyacá Department
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Boyacá Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Rafael Antonio Fonseca Cely (2020-2023)
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- Founded
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Boyacá Department
- Area
- 56
- Elevation
- 2903
- Official website
- www.chivata-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Chivata Panoramica.JPG
Show 3 more facts
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
- Commons category
- Chivatá
- inception
- 1556-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Gallery
- References
Chivatá is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre is situated at an altitude of on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at from the department capital Tunja. It borders Oicatá, Toca and Tuta in the north, Toca and Siachoque in the east, Siachoque and Soracá in the south and Tunja in the west.
== Etymology == The name Chivatá is derived from the Chibcha language of the Muisca who inhabited the central highlands of Colombia before the Spanish conquest in the 1530s. It means "Our outside farmfields".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chivatá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations