Boyacá Department (Gran Colombia)
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Boyacá Department was one of the
departments of Gran Colombia The Gran Colombia, Republic of Gran Colombia was a former independent country in northern South America, a post-Spanish colonial country that existed from 1819 to 1831. Its initial subdivisions, created in 1820, were revised and expanded in 1824 to ...
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Borders

It had borders to *
Magdalena Department Magdalena () is a Departments of Colombia, department of Colombia, located in the north of the country by the Caribbean Sea, with more than 1.3 million people. The capital of the Magdalena Department is Santa Marta and was named after the Mag ...
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Zulia Department Zulia Department from 1824 to 1830 was one of the departments of Gran Colombia. It was split from the Venezuela Department. It encompassed 4 provinces - Maracaybo/Maracaibo, Coro Province Coro Province (1811 - 1864) was a province in the ...
, Apure Department in the North, * Orinoco Department in the East, *
Azuay Department Azuay Department was ...
in the South, *
Cauca Department Cauca Department (, ) is a department of Southwestern Colombia. Located in the southwestern part of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Valle del Cauca Department to the north, Tolima Department to the northeast, Huila De ...
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Cundinamarca Department Department of Cundinamarca (, ) is one of the departments of Colombia. Its area covers (not including the Capital District) and it has a population of 2,919,060 as of 2018. It was created on August 5, 1886, under the constitutional terms pre ...
in the West.


Subdivisions

4 provinces and 29 cantons: *
Tunja Province Tunja Province was one of the provinces of Gran Colombia. It belonged to the 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 Sta ...
. Capital: Tunja. Cantones: Tunja, Chiquinquirá, Garagoa, Leyva, Moniquirá, Muzo, Santa Rosa, Sogamoso, Suata y Turmeque. *
Casanare Province Casanare Province was one of the provinces of Gran Colombia. History It belonged to the Boyacá Department (Gran Colombia), Boyacá Department, which was created in 1824. The capital was Moreno, now called Paz de Ariporo. Watercolors painted ...
. Capital: Pore. Cantones: Pore, Arauca, Chire, Macuco, Nunchía y Tame. * Pamplona Province. Capital: Pamplona. Cantones: Pamplona, Bucaramanga, Girón, Piedecuesta, Salazar, San José de Cúcuta y Villa del Rosario. * Socorro Province. Capital: Socorro. Cantones: Socorro, Barichara, Charalá, San Gil, Vélez y Zapatoca. {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyaca Department (Gran Colombia) Departments of Gran Colombia 1824 establishments in Gran Colombia 1830 disestablishments in Gran Colombia States and territories established in 1824 States and territories disestablished in 1830