Ubaté (originally Villa San Diego de Ubaté) is a town and municipality in the
Ubaté Province, part of
Cundinamarca Department,
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 ...
. Ubaté is the capital of the province with the same name and situated in the
Ubaté–Chiquinquirá Valley of the
Altiplano Cundiboyacense. The urban centre is located at an altitude of and from the capital
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...
. The province borders the department of
Boyacá in the north, the
Rionegro Province in the west, the
Central Savanna Province in the south and in the east and southeast the
Almeidas Province.
[Official website Ubaté]
Etymology
The name Ubaté comes from the native name "Ebate" meaning "Bloodied land" or "Sower of the mouth".
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History
The area of Ubaté before the Spanish conquest was inhabited by the Muisca, organised in a loose confederation of rulers called 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 ...
. Initially loyal to the '' zaque'' of Hunza, Ubaté changed rule around 1490 when it was submitted by ''zipa
When the Spain, Spanish arrived in the central Colombian highlands, the region was organized into the Muisca Confederation, which had two rulers; the ''Zipa'' was the ruler of the southern part and based in Funza, Muyquytá. The ''Zaque'' was the ...
'' Saguamanchica.[Restrepo Arcila, 2002, p.179]
Modern Ubaté was founded on April 12, 1592, by Bernardo de Albornoz.[
It is known as the "Milk Capital of Colombia", for a Gothic style cathedral and the San Luis Convent.
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Economy
The main activities of Ubaté 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 ...
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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Climate
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Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department
Villages in Colombia
Populated places established in 1592
1592 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Populated places of the Muisca Confederation