Tununguá
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Tununguá is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province. Tununguá is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes at a relatively low altitude of . The municipality borders the department of Santander in the north and east and the Boyacá municipalities Pauna (south and west) and Briceño (south).
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tununguá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Tununguá (Boyacá).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Boyaca - Tunungua.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Tununguá 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
- Western Boyacá Province
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Ermes Uriel Cómbita Santana(2020-2023)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 30 November 1962
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 77
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Official name
- Tununguá
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Boyacá Department
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 1840
- Area
- 77
- Elevation
- 1246
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Official website
- www.tunungua-boyaca.gov.co/index.shtml
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- Commons category
- Tununguá
- language of work or name
- Chibchan
- inception
- 1962-11-30
- native label
- Tununguá
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Tununguá is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province. Tununguá is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes at a relatively low altitude of . The municipality borders the department of Santander in the north and east and the Boyacá municipalities Pauna (south and west) and Briceño (south).
== History == Tununguá is located in the valley of Chiquinquirá, a town to the east and the area was inhabited before the Spanish conquest by the Muisca (east) and Muzo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tununguá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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