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El Peñón, Cundinamarca


FieldValue
nameEl Peñón
native_nameEl Peñón de Terama
settlement_typeMunicipality and town
image_skylineIglesia Santa Bárbara-El Peñón (Cundinamarca).JPG
image_captionChurch of El Peñón
image_flagFlag of el Peñón (Cundinamarca).svg
image_sealEscudo de El Peñón (Cundinamarca).svg
image_mapColombia - Cundinamarca - El Peñón.svg
mapsize250px
map_captionLocation of El Peñón in Cundinamarca
pushpin_mapColombia
pushpin_mapsize250
pushpin_map_captionLocation in Colombia
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameColombia
subdivision_type1Department
subdivision_name1Flag of Cundinamarca.svg Cundinamarca
subdivision_type2Province
subdivision_name2Rionegro
leader_titleMayor
leader_nameGustavo Adolfo Mojica Vargas
(2016-2019)
established_titleFounded
established_date1822
founderPedro Bustos
area_total_km2132
population_as_of2015
population_total4805
population_density_km2auto
population_urban445
coordinates
timezoneColombia Standard Time
utc_offset-5
elevation_m1310
website

(2016-2019) El Peñón is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. It is located at an altitude of 1310 m in the western flanks of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The municipality, part of the Rionegro Province borders Topaipí in the north, Vergara and Nimaima in the south, Pacho in the east and La Peña and La Palma in the west. The municipality is 120 km northwest of the capital Bogotá and thanks to the lower elevation has a temperate climate averaging 21 C.

Geology

The Lower Cretaceous El Peñón Formation is named after El Peñón.

History

The area of El Peñón before the Spanish conquest was inhabited by the Panche. Modern El Peñón was founded in 1822 by Pedro Bustos as El Peñón de Terama, named after a cacique of the Panche that resisted the Spanish conquistadors and died in 1565.

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