Tinjacá
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Tinjacá is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province. Tinjacá is located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from the department capital Tunja. It borders Sutamarchán in the north, Ráquira in the south, Sáchica in the east and in the west Chiquinquirá and Saboyá.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 147 inbound references to Tinjacá, and connects out to Puerto Boyacá, Muisca rulers and Colombia.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1555 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Geography articles needing translation from Spanish Wikipedia and Municipalities of Boyacá Department.
Vinony links it to 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tinjacá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tinjaca Parque.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Central square of Tinjacá
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Tinjacá (Boyacá).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Tinjaca.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Tinjacá 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
- Ricaurte Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Alsilver Sierra Mendieta(2020-2023)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Official name
- Tinjacá
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Provincia de Ricaurte
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 3035
- Area
- 79.2745
- Elevation
- 2106
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Official website
- www.tinjaca-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Tinjaca Parque.JPG
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- Commons category
- Tinjacá
- inception
- 1555-01-01
- native label
- Tinjacá
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- History
- Economy
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Tinjacá is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province. Tinjacá is located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from the department capital Tunja. It borders Sutamarchán in the north, Ráquira in the south, Sáchica in the east and in the west Chiquinquirá and Saboyá.
== Etymology == Tinjacá is derived from Chibcha and means "Enclosure of the powerful lord".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tinjacá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations