Cucunubá is a municipality and town of

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in the Ubaté Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. It borders with the municipalities of Ubaté, Lenguazaque,

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, Chocontá, Tausa and

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Geography

The urban centre of the municipality is located in the Ubaté Valley at an altitude of , while other parts stretch over the mountainous sectors of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian

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. The urban centre is at a distance of from the capital

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Etymology

The name Cucunubá comes from

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and means "Similarity to a face".Etymology Cucunubá
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History

Cucunubá in the times before the

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was part of the

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 what is today Colombia before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, Spanis ...

, a loose confederation of

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of the

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. Modern Cucunubá was founded on August 2, 1600, by Luis Enríquez.

Economy

Main economical activity of Cucunubá is

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. More than half of the municipality's area is covered with farmfields and

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farming producers. Main agricultural products are

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s and

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References

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