Rondón is a town and municipality in the Márquez Province, part of

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 moun ...

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

. The urban centre of Rondón is situated at an altitude of on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Colombian Eastern Ranges of the Andes. It is away from the departmental capital Tunja. Rondón borders

Viracachá Viracachá is a town and municipality in the Márquez Province, Colombia, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Viracachá is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at from the department capital Tunja and the small urban center at abo ...

and Siachoque in the north, Zetaquirá and Ramiriquí in the south,

Pesca Pesca is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the Sugamuxi Province, a subregion of Boyacá. The town is located in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes at altitudes between and . Pesca is west from th ...

in the east and Ramiriquí and Ciénega in the west.Official website Rondón
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Etymology

Previously, Rondón was called San Rafael. In earlier times, the area of Rondón was known as a forested terrain called La Galera. It received the name Rondón honouring the independence hero of the Battle of Vargas Swamp

Juan José Rondón ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of '' John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanis ...

History

The terrain of Rondón was completely forested until the mid 19th century, when the lands passed through various families of land owners. The newly founded settlement was populated by people coming from Ramiriquí, Ciénega,

and

. The town received the status of municipality on June 30, 1904, by Ignacio Aristides Medina Ávila.

Economy

Main economical activities in Rondón are livestock farming and agriculture. Among the products cultivated are lulo,

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...

, coffee,

banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguis ...

s, oranges, yuca,

arracacha Arracacha (''Arracacia xanthorrhiza'') is a root vegetable that originates in the Andes, whose starchy taproot is a popular food item across South America where it is a major commercial crop. Common names Being a South American plant, its most ...

bean A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes th ...

s, peas, avocadoes, guayaba, chirimoya, guanábana, potatoes and maize.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rondon, Boyaca Municipalities of Boyacá Department Populated places established in 1905 1905 establishments in Colombia Muisca Confederation