Sopó is a municipality and town of

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in the department of Cundinamarca. The town is located 39 km north of the Colombian capital

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History

The area of Sopó was inhabited first by indigenous groups during the

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and later the

Muisca The Muisca (also called the Chibcha) are indigenous peoples in Colombia and were a Pre-Columbian culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The Muisca spe ...

before the arrival of the Spanish in 1537. It was part of the ''

zipa When the Spain, Spanish arrived in the central Colombian highlands, the region was organized into the Muisca Confederation, which had two rulers; the ''Zipa'' was the ruler of the southern part and based in Funza, Muyquytá. The ''Zaque'' was the ...

zgo'' ruled from Bacatá. In the coat of arms of the town in the lower left quadrant a Muisca pattern can be seen.

Borders

*North: Tocancipá and Zipaquirá *South: La Calera *East: Guasca *West: Cajicá and Chía.

Economy

The major economical activity in Sopó is agriculture and especially

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. The third largest Colombian dairy company

Alpina Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen GmbH & Co. KG is an automobile manufacturing company based in Buchloe, in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany that develops and sells high-performance versions of BMW cars. Alpina works closely with BMW and t ...

was founded in Sopó in 1945.Official website Sopó

Gallery

File:La cabaña de Alpina.jpg, Alpina wholesale File:Sendero a la Cruz.jpg, Sendero de la Cruz walking trail File:2017 Briceño estación ferroviaria Colombia.jpg, Briceño Train Station File:Iglesia y Casa Cural del Divino Salvador.jpg, Church and cultural center of Sopó File:Casablanca Salas.jpg, Hacienda Casablanca South File:Puente Sopo.jpg, Replica of the bridge built in 1695

References

{{Municipalities cundinamarca department Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department Populated places established in 1653 1653 establishments in the Spanish Empire