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San Antonio del Tequendama

Field	Value
name	San Antonio del Tequendama
settlement_type	Municipality and town
image_skyline	Parque Chicaque.JPG
image_caption	Chicaque Natural Park
image_flag	Flag of San Antonio del Tequendama (Cundinamarca).svg
image_seal	Escudo de San Antonio del Tequendama.svg
image_map	Colombia - Cundinamarca - San Antonio del Tequendama.svg
mapsize	250px
map_caption	Location of the municipality and town inside 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	Tequendama Province
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Luis Maria Gordillo Sánchez
(2016–2019)
established_title	Founded
established_date	10 February 1857
founder	Críspulo Corredor
area_total_km2	82
area_urban_km2	22
population_as_of	2015
population_total	13084
population_density_km2	auto
population_urban	1018
coordinates
timezone	Colombia Standard Time
utc_offset	-5
elevation_m	1540
website	Official website

(2016–2019) San Antonio del Tequendama is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Tequendama Province part of the department of Cundinamarca. The municipality is located along the Serranía de Subía in the Tena Valley and borders Tena and Bojacá in the north, Bojacá and Soacha in the east, La Mesa and El Colegio in the west and in the south Soacha and Granada.

Etymology

The name Tequendama means in the Muysccubun, the language of the Muisca: "he who precipitated downward".

History

This municipality was formed on the site of Cubsió, a place of reunion of the Muisca originally from Bojacá and Serrezuela. Cubsió was already populated by indigenous peoples from the Herrera Period with the oldest evidence dated at 1865 years BP (2nd century AD) of a site a few meters from the current course of the Bogotá River.

Around 1470 the terrains of San Antonio de Tequendama were ruled by the cacique of Fusagasugá, who fought with the Panche against Saguamanchica in the Battle of Pasca.

In 1539, conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada organised an expedition down the Bogotá River where he sent his soldier Juan de Céspedes.

The modern town was founded by Críspulo Corredor in 1857. This municipality has changed names multiples times, San Antonio, San Antonio de Tena, and its actual name San Antonio del Tequendama.

Tourism

The Chicaque Natural Park is an ecotouristic area within San Antonio del Tequendama.

Panorama

References

{{in lang. es [http://www.sanantoniodeltequendama-cundinamarca.gov.co/informacion_general.shtml Official website San Antonio del Tequendama]{{Dead link. (August 2025)
{{in lang. es [http://transcripcionesreveladoras.blogspot.com.co/2013/07/historia-de-colombia-la-civilizacion.html Etymology Tequendama] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-08-13)
Argüello García, Pedro María. (2015). "Subsistence economy and chiefdom emergence in the Muisca area. A study of the Valle de Tena". [[University of Pittsburgh]].

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