Támara is a town and municipality in the
Department of
Casanare,
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
. 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.
[Official website Támara]
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History
Támara before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca
The Spanish conquest of the Muisca took place from 1537 to 1540. The Muisca people, Muisca were the inhabitants of the central Andes, Andean highlands of Colombia before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. They were organised in a loose M ...
was an important cotton
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producing village.[
Modern Támara was founded on August 6, 1628, by José Dadey Pey.][
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Economy
Main economical activities in Támara are agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...
; coffee, yuca, maize
Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native American ...
, bananas and sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of 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 stout, jointed, fib ...
and livestock
Livestock are the Domestication, domesticated animals that are raised in an Agriculture, agricultural setting to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, Egg as food, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The t ...
farming.[
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tamara, Casanare
Municipalities of Casanare Department
Populated places established in 1628
1628 establishments in the Spanish Empire