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Socotá
Socotá is a town and municipality in the Valderrama Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The municipality is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The urban centre is at an altitude of at a distance of from the department capital Tunja. It borders Jericó and Sativanorte in the north, Pisba and Mongua in the south, Chita and Támara, Casanare in the east and Sativasur, Tasco, Socha and Gámeza in the west. Etymology The name Socotá comes from Chibcha and means either "Land of the Sun and farmfields" or "Good harvest". History Before the Spanish conquest, Socotá was the northeasternmost part of the loose Muisca Confederation. It was ruled either by the ''iraca'' of Sugamuxi or by the ''Tundama'' based in Tundama. Modern Socotá was founded on January 19, 1602 by Gonzalo Sanchez de Flandes. Economy Main economic activity of Socotá is livestock farming and on a minor scale coal mining. Named after Socotá * Socotá Format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socotá Formation
The Socotá Formation ( es, Formación Socotá, Kis) is a geological formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The formation consisting of a lower unit of calcareous sandstones and an upper sequence of shales dates to the Early Cretaceous period; Late Aptian epoch and in Quipile has a measured thickness of with large regional variations. The formation hosts ammonite fossils. Etymology The formation was defined as a thicker sequence and named in 1969 by Cáceres and Etayo after Socotá, a vereda of Apulo, Cundinamarca. The name Socotá in Muysccubun, the language of the native Muisca, means either "Land of the Sun and farmfields" or "Good harvest". Description Lithologies The Socotá Formation has a maximum thickness of , and is characterised by a lower sequence of calcareous sandstones and an upper part of shales. Fossils of the ammonites '' Stoyanowiceras treffryanus'', '' Dufrenoyia sanctorum'', '' Parahoplites (?) hubachi'', an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muisca Confederation
The Muisca Confederation was a loose confederation of different Muisca rulers (''zaques'', ''zipas'', ''iraca'', and ''tundama'') in the central Andes, Andean highlands of present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, Spanish conquest of northern South America. The area, presently called Altiplano Cundiboyacense, comprised the current departments of Colombia, departments of Boyacá Department, Boyacá, Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca and minor parts of Santander Department, Santander. According to some List of Muisca scholars, Muisca scholars the Muisca Confederation was one of the best-organized confederations of tribes on the South American continent. Modern anthropologists, such as Jorge Gamboa Mendoza, attribute the present-day knowledge about the confederation and its organization more to a reflection by Spanish chroniclers who predominantly wrote about it a century or more after the Muisca were conquered and proposed the idea of a loose collection o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Colombia
The Municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia with 1,122 municipalities ('' municipios''). Each one of them is led by a mayor (''alcalde'') elected by popular vote and represents the maximum executive government official at a municipality level under the mandate of the governor of their department which is a representative of all municipalities in the department; municipalities are grouped to form departments. The municipalities of Colombia are also grouped in an association called the ''Federación Colombiana de Municipios'' (Colombian Federation of Municipalities), which functions as a union under the private law and under the constitutional right to free association to defend their common interests. Categories Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 Article 7 http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=48267 the mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongua
Mongua is a town and municipality in Sugamuxi Province in the Colombian Department of Boyacá. Mongua is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes at altitudes between and . The municipality borders Gámeza, Socotá, Pisba, Labranzagrande, Aquitania, Sogamoso, Monguí and Tópaga.Official website Mongua - accessed 06-05-2016 History In the centuries before the arrival of the conquistadors, the central highlands of Colombia ( |
Gámeza
Gámeza () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the Sugamuxi Province, a subregion of Boyacá. The town center is located at from Sogamoso and the municipality borders Tasco and Corrales in the north, Tópaga and Mongua in the south, in the east Socotá and westward of Gámeza Corrales and Tópaga.Official website Gámeza - accessed 04-05-2016 History Before the in the 1530s, Gámeza was inhabited first by indigenous groups during the |
Socha
Socha is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the Valderrama Province, which is a subregion of Boyacá. It borders Socotá in the east, Sativasur in the north, Tasco in the south and in the west Paz de Río. Geography The village is located in the Eastern Ranges at altitudes between and .Official website Socha – accessed 06-05-2016 Socha is the largest municipality in the . The forms the northern boundary of Socha. Hist ...
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Sativasur
Sativasur is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Northern Boyacá Province. It is approximately 132 km from Tunja, the capital of the department. Sativasur borders the municipalities Sativanorte in the north, Socotá in the east and Paz de Río in the south and west. History Sativanorte and Sativasur were called Sátiva in the times before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca on the central highlands (Altiplano Cundiboyacense) of Colombia. Sátiva was inhabited during the Herrera Period and later ruled by the ''cacique'' of Tundama, today known as Duitama and part of the Muisca Confederation, the former country of the Muisca. The Spanish conquistadores who conquered the area in 1540 were Gonzalo Suárez Rendón and Hernán Pérez de Quesada. Sativasur was properly founded on January 30th, 1720. The names for Sativasur and Sativanorte are derived from the ''cacique'' Sátiva, which in the Chibcha language of the Mui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Támara, Casanare
Támara is a town and municipality in the Department of Casanare, Colombia. The urban centre is located at an altitude of at a distance of from the department capital Yopal. It borders in the north Sacama, in the east Pore and Paz de Ariporo, in the west Socotá of the department of Boyacá and in the south Nunchia and Paya, Boyacá. History Támara before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca was an important cotton producing village. Modern Támara was founded on August 6, 1628, by José Dadey Pey. Economy Main economical activities in Támara are agriculture; coffee, yuca, maize, bananas and sugarcane and livestock Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to anima ... farming. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamara, Casanare Municipalities of Casanare Department Popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasco, Boyacá
Tasco is a town and municipality in the Valderrama Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Tasco is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at altitudes ranging from to . The Chicamocha River flows through the municipality which borders Socha in the north, Corrales and Gámeza in the south, Socotá in the east and Betéitiva and Paz de Río in the west. The urban centre is located at an altitude of at from the department capital Tunja. Etymology Tasco in the Chibcha language of the Muisca means "Enclosure or mansion of the sovereign".Etymology Municipalities Boyacá - Excelsio.net History The area of Tasco was inhabited by the Boche and Pirgua tribes, before the |
Sativanorte
Sativanorte is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Northern Boyacá Province. Sativanorte borders Susacón in the north, in the south Sativasur and Tutazá, in the west Onzaga of the department of Santander and in the east Jericó and Socotá.Official website Sativanorte - accessed 03-05-2016 Etymology The names for Sativanorte and Sativasur are derived from the ''cacique'' Sátiva, which in the of the Muisca means: "Captain of the Sun".[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valderrama Province
The Valderrama Province is a subregion of the Colombian Department of Boyacá. The subregion is formed by 7 municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the .... The province is named after Antonio Valderrama. Municipalities Betéitiva • Chita, Boyacá, Chita • Jericó, Boyacá, Jericó • Paz de Río • Socotá • Socha • Tasco, Boyacá, Tasco References Provinces of Boyacá Department {{Boyacá-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyacá Department
Boyacá () is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia". Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the mountains of the Eastern Cordillera to the border with Venezuela, although the western end of the department extends to the Magdalena River at the town of Puerto Boyacá. Boyacá borders to the north with the Department of Santander, to the northeast with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Norte de Santander, to the east with the departments of Arauca and Casanare. To the south, Boyacá borders the department of Cundinamarca and to the west with the Department of Antioquia covering a total area of . The capital of Boyacá is the city of Tunja. Boyacá is known as "The Land of Freedom" because this region was the scene of a series of battles which led to Colombia's independence from Spain. The first one took place on 25 July 1819 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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