Chocontá
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Chocontá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Almeidas Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. It is located on the Pan-American Highway. In 1938 Chocontá had a population of 2,041.
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Vinony's link graph records 164 inbound references to Chocontá, and connects out to Colombia, Bogotá and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1563 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department and Populated places established in 1563.
Vinony links it to 23 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Chocontá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Parque Principal de Chocontá.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main square of Chocontá
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Chocontá (Cundinamarca).svg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Escudo de Chocontá.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Cundinamarca - Chocontá.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town inside Cundinamarca Department of Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cundinamarca
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Almeidas Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Almeidas Province
- Population
- 25257
- Area
- 301
- Elevation
- 2689
- Body of water
- Bogotá River
- Capital of
- Almeidas Province
- Official website
- www.choconta-cundinamarca.gov.co
- Image
- Parque Principal de Chocontá.JPG
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- Commons category
- Chocontá
- inception
- 1563-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Trivia
- Climate
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Chocontá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Almeidas Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. It is located on the Pan-American Highway. In 1938 Chocontá had a population of 2,041.
== Etymology == In the Chibcha language of the Muisca, Chocontá means: "Farmlands of the good ally" or "Garden of the neighbour".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chocontá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations