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Sativasur

Field	Value
name	Sativasur
settlement_type	Municipality and town
image_skyline	Sativasur vista.jpg
image_caption	View of Sativasur
image_flag	Flag of Sativasur (Boyacá).svg
image_map	Colombia - Boyaca - Sativasur.svg
mapsize	250px
map_caption	Location of the municipality and town of Sativasur in the Boyacá Department of Colombia
pushpin_map
pushpin_mapsize	250
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Colombia
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Colombia
subdivision_type1	Department
subdivision_name1	Boyacá Department
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_name2	Northern Boyacá Province
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Edison Manuel Aparicio Arismendy
(2020-2023)
established_title	Founded
established_date	30 January 1720
area_total_km2	81
population_as_of	2015
population_total	1110
population_density_km2	auto
population_urban	267
coordinates
timezone	Colombia Standard Time
utc_offset	-5
elevation_m	2600
website	Official website

(2020-2023)

Sativasur is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Northern Boyacá Province. It is approximately 132 km from Tunja, the capital of the department. Sativasur borders the municipalities Sativanorte in the north, Socotá in the east and Paz de Río in the south and west.

History

Sativanorte and Sativasur were called Sátiva in the times before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca on the central highlands (Altiplano Cundiboyacense) of Colombia. Sátiva was inhabited during the Herrera Period and later ruled by the cacique of Tundama, today known as Duitama and part of the Muisca Confederation, the former country of the Muisca. The Spanish conquistadores who conquered the area in 1540 were Gonzalo Suárez Rendón and Hernán Pérez de Quesada. Sativasur was properly founded on January 30, 1720.

The names for Sativasur and Sativanorte are derived from the cacique Sátiva, which in the Chibcha language of the Muisca means: "Captain of the Sun".

Economy

The main economical activities of the village are agriculture, livestock farming and mining.

Gallery

File:Iglesia de Sativasur.JPG|Church of Sativasur File:Iglesia sativasur.jpg|Church File:Patrono sativasur.jpg|Church interior File:Cabalgata sativasur.jpg|Sativasur festival

References

{{in lang. es [http://www.excelsio.net/2011/11/sabe-el-origen-del-nombre-de-su.html Etymology Sativasur] - accessed 03-05-2016

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