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Lengupá Province
The Lengupá Province is a province of Boyacá Department, Colombia. The province is formed by 6 municipalities. Etymology The name of the province and the Lengupá River, after which the province is named, is possibly derived from the Chibcha words ''Len'': "site"; ''Gua'': "of the river"; ''Paba'': "father" or "chief". Subdivision Lengupá Province comprises 6 municipalities: * Miraflores * Berbeo * Campohermoso * Páez * San Eduardo * Zetaquirá References Provinces of Boyacá Department Province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...
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Lengupá River
The Lengupá is a river in the department of Boyacá, Colombia giving its name to the valley and the province it crosses. The Lengupá flows into the Upía River, which in turn flows into the Meta River, which goes east across the Llanos Orientales plains to the Orinoco The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wo .... References Rivers of Colombia Muysccubun {{Colombia-river-stub ...
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Muisca People
The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous peoples of Colombia, indigenous people and Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia, culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan languages, Chibchan language family, also called ''Muysca'' and ''Mosca''. They were encountered by list of conquistadors in Colombia, conquistadors dispatched by the Spanish Empire in 1537 at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, conquest. Subgroupings of the Muisca were mostly identified by their allegiances to three great rulers: the ''zaque, hoa'', centered in Tunja, Hunza, ruling a territory roughly covering modern southern and northeastern Boyacá Department, Boyacá and southern Santander Department, Santander; the ''zipa, psihipqua'', centered in Bacatá, Muyquytá and encompassing most of modern Cundinamarca Department, Cundinama ...
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Zetaquirá
Zetaquirá () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Lengupá Province, part of the department of Boyacá. Zetaquirá is located at from the department capital Tunja and borders Pesca in the north, Miraflores in the south, in the east Berbeo, San Eduardo and Aquitania and in the west Ramiriquí and Chinavita. The municipality stretches over an area of on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at altitudes between and . Etymology Zetaquirá in Chibcha means "Land of the snake" or "City of the snake".Etymology Municipalities Boyacá
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San Eduardo, Boyacá
San Eduardo () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Lengupá Province. Municipalities of Boyacá Department {{Boyacá-geo-stub ...
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Campohermoso
Campohermoso () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Lengupá Province. Climate Campohermoso has a tropical monsoon climate An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ... ( Köppen ''Am'') with moderate rainfall from December to March and heavy to very heavy rainfall in the remaining months. References Municipalities of Boyacá Department {{Boyacá-geo-stub ...
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Berbeo
Berbeo is a town and municipality in the Lengupá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre of Berbeo is located at an altitude of in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Berbeo borders San Eduardo in the east, Zetaquirá and Miraflores in the west, Zetaquirá in the north and Miraflores and Páez in the south. Etymology The municipality was formerly called San Fernando de Aguablanca and Legupá, and since 1913 bears the name Berbeo, after Juan Francisco Berbeo. History The area of Berbeo before the Spanish conquest was inhabited by the indigenous Muisca. In Berbeo petroglyphs have been discovered. Modern Berbeo was founded on April 23, 1743, by Jesuits. Economy Main activity of Berbeo is agriculture, with coffee Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulant, stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popu ...
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Chibcha Language
Chibcha, Mosca, Muisca, Muysca (*/ˈmɨska/), or Muysca de Bogotá, was a language spoken by the Muisca people of the Muisca Confederation, one of the many indigenous cultures of the Americas. The Muisca inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of what today is the country of Colombia. The name of the language ''Muysc Cubun'' in its own language means "language of the people", from ''muysca'' ("people") and ''cubun'' ("language" or "word"). Despite the disappearance of the language in the 17th century (approximately), several language revitalization processes are underway within the current Muisca communities. The Muisca people remain ethnically distinct and their communities are recognized by the Colombian state. Important scholars who have contributed to the knowledge of the Chibcha language include Juan de Castellanos, Bernardo de Lugo, José Domingo Duquesne and Ezequiel Uricoechea. History In prehistorical times, in the Andean civilizations called preceramic, the popula ...
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Tegua People
The Tegua or Tecua were an Arawak-speaking indigenous people of Colombia who died out in the 19th century. The territories of the Tegua stretched from Macanal, Boyacá in the west to Aguazul in the east and from Berbeo in the north to Villanueva in the south, on the eastern flanks of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Knowledge of the Tegua is scarce, but has been provided by pre-modern scholars Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Basilio Fernández de Oviedo and Pedro Simón and in modern times by Javier Ocampo López and Pedro Gustavo Huertas Ramírez.Los Teguas
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Indigenous Peoples In Colombia
Indigenous peoples of Colombia, are the ethnic groups who have inhabited Colombia since before the European colonization, in the early 16th century. According to the last census, they comprise 4.4% of the country's population, belonging to 115 different tribes.https://www.dane.gov.co/files/investigaciones/boletines/grupos-etnicos/presentacion-grupos-etnicos-2019.pdf Approximately two thirds of the Indigenous peoples of Colombia live in La Guajira, Cauca, Nariño, Cordoba and Sucre Departments. Amazon Basin, a sparsely populated region, is home to over 70 different Indigenous ethnic groups. History Some theories claim the earliest human habitation of South America to be as early as 43,000 BC, but the current scholarly consensus among archaeologists is that human habitation in South America only dates back to around 15,000 BC at the earliest. Anthropologist Tom Dillehay dates the earliest hunter-gatherer cultures on the continent at almost 10,000 BC, during the late Ple ...
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Provinces Of Colombia
Colombia is divided into 32 ''departments.'' These in turn are divided into ''municipalities,'' though some receive the special category of ''district''. However, there are also ''provinces'', a generic name applied to provinces, districts, regions and subregions. These are generally internal administrative authorities of the departments, more historical than legal. Most Colombian departments have this kind of subdivision. Those that do not are the departments of Amazonas, Arauca, Caquetá, Casanare, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo, San Andrés y Providencia, Vaupés, and Vichada. List of provinces See also * Regions of Colombia * Departments of Colombia * Municipalities of Colombia * Districts of Colombia {{distinguish, District of Columbia The Districts ( es, Distrito) in Colombia are cities that have a feature that highlights them, such as its location and trade, history or tourism. Arguably, the districts are special municipalities. The first di ... Reference ...
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Time In Colombia
Colombia has one time zone, Colombia Time (COT), which is located in the UTC−05:00 zone, 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Its standard time zone abbreviation is COT.Worldtimezone.coTime zone names - Colombia Time Retrieved April 24, 2010 Colombia does not observe daylight saving time, but used it during eleven months between May 1992 and April 1993. IANA time zone database In the IANA time zone database The tz database is a collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems. Paul Eggert is its current editor and maintainer, with the organizational back ... Colombia has the following time zone: *America/Bogota (CO) See also * daylight saving time in Colombia References External links GMT: Greenwich Mean Time - World Time / Time in every Time Zone {{Americas topic, Time in Colombia ...
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