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La Calera is a municipality and town of
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
in the Guavio Province, part of the department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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of Cundinamarca.
La Calera is a common weekend destination, mainly for the many restaurants, as it is approximately over land from Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
, the capital city of Colombia. La Calera is located in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, east of the capital and overlooking part of it. La Calera borders Guasca, Sopó and Chía in the north, Guasca and Junín in the east, Bogotá in the west and Choachí and Fómeque in the south.Official website La CaleraEtymology
The name of the town is derived from the limestonemine
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Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
, called ''calera''.
History
The area of La Calera was before the Spanish conquest inhabited by the Muisca. La Calera, just behind the mountains borderingBacatá
Bacatá is the name given to the main settlement of the Muisca Confederation on the Bogotá savanna. It mostly refers to an area, rather than an individual village, although the name is also found in texts referring to the modern settlement of Fu ...
was ruled by the '' zipa'' based in the southern capital.
Modern La Calera was founded on December 16, 1772 by Pedro de Tovar y Buendía.
Economy
Main economical activity in La Calera is cement mining. The geological formation outcropping in the municipality is theGuaduas Formation
The Guaduas Formation ( es, Formación Guaduas, K2P1G, K2E1G, KPgg, KTg, TKg, Ktg) is a geological formation of the Middle Magdalena Basin and the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The predominantly shale with coalb ...
.
Born in La Calera
* Israel Corredor, former professional cyclistGallery
References
{{Authority control Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department Muisca Confederation Populated places established in 1772 1770s establishments in the Viceroyalty of New Granada 1772 establishments in South America