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.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Chivatá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
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- Chivatá Parque.JPG
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- Central square of Chivatá
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- BanderaChivatá.png
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Chivata.svg
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- 250px
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- Location of the municipality and town of Chivatá in the Boyacá Department of Colombia
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- 300
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- Location in Colombia
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- Country
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- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Boyacá Department
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Boyacá Province
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- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Rafael Antonio Fonseca Cely (2020-2023)
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- Founded
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 56
- Elevation
- 2903
- Official website
- www.chivata-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Chivata Panoramica.JPG
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- Chivatá
- inception
- 1556-01-01
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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.
== 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".
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