Siachoque
Sign in to saveSiachoque is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Siachoque is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from the department capital Tunja. It borders Toca in the north, Rondón and Viracachá in the south, in the east Toca, Pesca and Rondón and in the west Soracá and Chivatá.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Siachoque is referenced by 144 other articles, and connects out to potato, Puerto Boyacá and Colombia.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under 1556 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Municipalities of Boyacá Department and Populated places established in 1556.
Its subject is documented across 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Siachoque
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Siachoque parque.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Central square Siachoque
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Siachoque (Boyacá).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Siachoque.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Siachoque in the Boyacá Department of Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
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- Location in Colombia
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Boyacá Department
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Boyacá Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jairo Grijalba Lancheros(2020–2023)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Boyacá Department
- Area
- 125
- Elevation
- 3044
- Official website
- www.siachoque-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Siachoque parque.JPG
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- Commons category
- Siachoque
- inception
- 1556-01-01
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
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Siachoque is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Siachoque is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from the department capital Tunja. It borders Toca in the north, Rondón and Viracachá in the south, in the east Toca, Pesca and Rondón and in the west Soracá and Chivatá.
== Etymology == The name Siachoque comes from the Chibcha language of the Muisca people who inhabited the central highlands of present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest. It is composed of the words Si; "here", a; "from, taste, smell", chó; "good" and que; "vigorous fortress", translating as "place of good smells and strong and vigorous cultures" or "Land of the vigorous taste".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siachoque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations