Bojacá
title: "Bojacá" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["municipalities-of-cundinamarca-department"] topic_path: "general/municipalities-of-cundinamarca-department" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojacá" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Bojacá |
| settlement_type | Municipality and town |
| image_skyline | 2016 Bojacá iglesia plaza Mayor.JPG |
| image_caption | Church of Bojacá |
| image_flag | Flag of Bojacá (Cundinamarca).svg |
| image_seal | Escudo de Bojacá.svg |
| image_map | Colombia - Cundinamarca - Bojacá.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 | Western Savanna Province |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Juan Carlos Gaitán Chiriví |
| (2016–2019) | |
| established_title | Founded |
| established_date | 16 October 1537 |
| founder | Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada |
| area_total_km2 | 109 |
| area_urban_km2 | 40 |
| population_as_of | 2015 |
| population_total | 11254 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| population_urban | 9256 |
| coordinates | |
| timezone | Colombia Standard Time |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| elevation_m | 2598 |
| website | Official website |
| :: |
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Etymology
The name Bojacá comes from Chibcha and means "Purple enclosure".
History
The area around Bojacá was inhabited at least since 3410 years BP (1400 BCE), evidenced by archaeological excavations from the Herrera Period performed in Aguazuque, Zipacón and around Lake Herrera, Mosquera. The territories were already important in the times before the Spanish conquest when Bojacá was part of the Muisca Confederation; a loose confederation of rulers of the Muisca.
On his expedition to El Dorado and after conquering the Muisca, conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded modern Bojacá on October 16, 1537.
Economy
Main economical activities of Bojacá are agriculture and livestock farming. Among the agricultural products cultivated are potatoes, carrots, maize, lettuce and fruits as blackberries, strawberries, prunes and the typical Colombian fruits uchuva, tree tomato and granadilla.
Climate
|metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Bojacá (Acapulco), elevation 2650 m, (1981–2010) |Jan high C = 16.1 |Feb high C = 16.1 |Mar high C = 16.0 |Apr high C = 16.0 |May high C = 16.1 |Jun high C = 16.1 |Jul high C = 15.7 |Aug high C = 15.8 |Sep high C = 16.3 |Oct high C = 16.0 |Nov high C = 16.0 |Dec high C = 15.9 | year high C = 16.0 |Jan mean C = 13.0 |Feb mean C = 13.2 |Mar mean C = 13.2 |Apr mean C = 13.4 |May mean C = 13.4 |Jun mean C = 13.1 |Jul mean C = 12.7 |Aug mean C = 12.9 |Sep mean C = 13.0 |Oct mean C = 13.1 |Nov mean C = 13.1 |Dec mean C = 12.9 | year mean C = 13.1 |Jan low C = 9.5 |Feb low C = 9.3 |Mar low C = 9.8 |Apr low C = 10.1 |May low C = 10.2 |Jun low C = 9.9 |Jul low C = 9.3 |Aug low C = 9.4 |Sep low C = 9.7 |Oct low C = 9.7 |Nov low C = 9.9 |Dec low C = 9.5 | year low C = 9.7 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 43.4 |Feb precipitation mm = 54.8 |Mar precipitation mm = 77.4 |Apr precipitation mm = 111.9 |May precipitation mm = 87.8 |Jun precipitation mm = 44.5 |Jul precipitation mm = 38.4 |Aug precipitation mm = 35.1 |Sep precipitation mm = 63.1 |Oct precipitation mm = 105.3 |Nov precipitation mm = 91.3 |Dec precipitation mm = 70.9 |year precipitation mm = 778.2 | Jan precipitation days = 7 | Feb precipitation days = 7 | Mar precipitation days = 11 | Apr precipitation days = 13 | May precipitation days = 12 | Jun precipitation days = 10 | Jul precipitation days = 10 | Aug precipitation days = 9 | Sep precipitation days = 10 | Oct precipitation days = 13 | Nov precipitation days = 12 | Dec precipitation days = 9 | year precipitation days = 115 | Jan humidity = 90 | Feb humidity = 90 | Mar humidity = 91 | Apr humidity = 93 | May humidity = 92 | Jun humidity = 92 | Jul humidity = 91 | Aug humidity = 91 | Sep humidity = 91 | Oct humidity = 91 | Nov humidity = 92 | Dec humidity = 91 | year humidity = 91 |source 1 = Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales{{cite web |url=http://www.ideam.gov.co/documents/21021/553571/Promedios+Climatol%C3%B3gicos++1981+-+2010.xlsx/f28d0b07-1208-4a46-8ccf-bddd70fb4128 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815025712/http://www.ideam.gov.co/documents/21021/553571/Promedios%2BClimatol%C3%B3gicos%2B%2B1981%2B-%2B2010.xlsx/f28d0b07-1208-4a46-8ccf-bddd70fb4128 |archive-date=15 August 2016 |title=Promedios Climatológicos 1981–2010 |publisher=Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales |language=es |access-date= 17 June 2024 |url-status=dead}}
Gallery
File:Bojacá Cundinamarca - Plaza central.JPG|Central square File:Cundinamarca Iglesia de Bojacá.JPG|Church of Bojacá at the central square File:Bojacá busto de fray Diego Francisco Pinilla.JPG|Buste of friar Diego Francisco Pinilla at the central square
References
References
- {{in lang. es [http://www.bojaca-cundinamarca.gov.co/informacion_general.shtml Official website Bojacá] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-10-11)
- es [http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-7783403 Etymology municipalities Cundinamarca] - [[El Tiempo (Colombia). El Tiempo]]
- [[Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Gonzalo. (1990). "Aguazuque: Evidence of hunter-gatherers and growers on the high plains of the Eastern Ranges". Banco de la República: Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales.
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