Gámeza
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Gámeza () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the Sugamuxi Province, a subregion of Boyacá. The town center is located at from Sogamoso and the municipality borders Tasco and Corrales in the north, Tópaga and Mongua in the south, in the east Socotá and westward of Gámeza Corrales and Tópaga.
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Vinony's link graph records 163 inbound references to Gámeza, and connects out to Puerto Boyacá, Tópaga and Muisca rulers.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1585 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Municipalities of Boyacá Department and Populated places established in 1585.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Gámeza
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Gameza entrada.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Town entrance
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Gámeza (Boyacá).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Gameza.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Gámeza 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
- Sugamuxi Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- José Alirio Ochica Pérez(2020–2023)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Boyacá Department
- Area
- 88
- Elevation
- 2800
- Official website
- www.gameza-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Gameza entrada.JPG
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- Commons category
- Gámeza
- inception
- 1585-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gámeza () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the Sugamuxi Province, a subregion of Boyacá. The town center is located at from Sogamoso and the municipality borders Tasco and Corrales in the north, Tópaga and Mongua in the south, in the east Socotá and westward of Gámeza Corrales and Tópaga.
== History == Before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca in the 1530s, Gámeza was inhabited first by indigenous groups during the Herrera Period and later part of the Muisca Confederation, the former country of the Muisca in the central highlands (Altiplano Cundiboyacense) of Colombia. The confederation was ruled by zaques in Hunza (present-day Tunja), zipas in Bacatá and caciques of other villages. Gámeza was part of the reign of the iraca of Sugamuxi, currently known as Sogamoso.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gámeza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations