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Guatavita

Field	Value
name	Guatavita
settlement_type	Municipality and town
image_skyline	Guatavita - Coliseo.JPG
image_caption	Coliseum of Guatavita
image_seal	Escudo_guatativa.jpg
image_map	Colombia - Cundinamarca - Guatavita.svg
mapsize	250px
map_caption	Location of the municipality and town of Guatavita in the Cundinamarca Department of Colombia
pushpin_map	Colombia
pushpin_mapsize	250
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Colombia
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Colombia
subdivision_type1	Department
subdivision_name1	Flag of Cundinamarca.svg Cundinamarca
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_name2	Guavio Province
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Robeth Yamit Peña Romero
(2016-2019)
established_title	Founded
established_date	18 March 1593
founder	Miguel de Ibarra
area_total_km2	247.3
area_urban_km2	6.84
population_as_of	2015
population_total	6898
population_density_km2	auto
population_urban	1960
coordinates
timezone	Colombia Standard Time
utc_offset	-5
elevation_m	2680
website	Official website

Flag_of_Guatavita,_Cundimarca.png (2016-2019) Guatavita is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Guavio Province of the department of Cundinamarca. Guatavita is located 75 km northeast of the capital Bogotá. It borders Sesquilé and Machetá in the north, Gachetá and Junín in the east, Guasca in the south and in the west are Tocancipá and Gachancipá.

History

Before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, the central plateau in the Colombian Andes, the area was inhabited by the Muisca organized in their Muisca Confederation. Guatavita was ruled by a cacique who was a powerful figure consulted by the zipas of Bacatá and the zaques of Hunza. Guatavita was specialized in gold working.

In the Guatavita Lake the new zipa was inaugurated in rituals performed by the cacique of Guatavita, represented by the famous golden Muisca raft. Around 1490 the Battle of Chocontá took place where zaque Michuá was supported by the cacique of Guatavita and lost with their outnumbered army of 60,000 guecha warriors against the zipa Saguamanchica. Both Muisca rulers died in this battle.

Modern Guatavita was founded on March 18, 1593, by Miguel de Ibarra.

Guatavita was rebuilt on higher ground in the mid-1960s due to the construction of the Tominé Reservoir, which intentionally flooded the area of the town.

Etymology

In the Chibcha language of the Muisca, Guachetá means "end of the farming fields" or "point of the mountain range".

Economy

Main economical activities in Guatavita are agriculture, mining and tourism. In terms of agriculture most common are potatoes, maize, barley and peas. Tourism is mainly in the weekends when craft markets open in town.

Guatavita Lake

The sacred and ceremonial Lake Guatavita, of the pre-Columbian Muisca is located nearby, within the Sesquilé municipality of Almeidas Province.

Climate

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Gallery

File:Plaza de guatavita.jpg|Central square File:OBELISCO GUATAVITA.JPG|Obelisk File:Tejados y casas blancas.JPG|Typical houses File:CasaIndigenaLagunaDeGuatavita.JPG|Reconstructed bohío of the Muisca File:Comercio en Guatavita (Centro Artesanal).jpg|Crafts market File:Flores violetas y parque.JPG|Flowers and park File:Guatavita view.JPG|Rural area File:Represa de Tominé 1.jpg|Tominé Reservoir

References

{{in lang. es [http://www.guatavita-cundinamarca.gov.co/index.shtml#3 Official website Guatavita] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-01-30 - accessed 05-05-2016)
[[Javier Ocampo López, Javier. (2013). "Mitos y leyendas indígenas de Colombia - Indigenous myths and legends of Colombia". Plaza & Janes Editores Colombia S.A..
{{in lang. es [http://www.banrepcultural.org/node/32359 History of the Muisca] {{Webarchive. link. (2020-10-28 - Banco de la República - accessed 05-05-2016)

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