Chocontá
title: "Chocontá" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["municipalities-of-cundinamarca-department", "populated-places-established-in-1563", "1563-establishments-in-the-spanish-empire"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocontá" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Chocontá |
| settlement_type | Municipality and town |
| image_skyline | Parque Principal de Chocontá.JPG |
| image_caption | Main square of Chocontá |
| image_flag | Flag of Chocontá (Cundinamarca).svg |
| image_seal | Escudo de Chocontá.svg |
| image_map | Colombia - Cundinamarca - Chocontá.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 | Almeidas Province |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Jorge Enrique Pinzón Pinzón |
| (2016–2019) | |
| established_title | Founded |
| established_date | 6 September 1563 |
| founder | Tómas López |
| area_total_km2 | 300.2 |
| area_urban_km2 | 1.58 |
| population_as_of | 2018 census |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | 20568 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| population_urban | 10554 |
| population_density_urban_km2 | auto |
| coordinates | |
| timezone | Colombia Standard Time |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| elevation_m | 2655 |
| website | Official website |
| :: |
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Etymology
In the Chibcha language of the Muisca, Chocontá means: "Farmlands of the good ally" or "Garden of the neighbour".
History
Chocontá is located in the territories of the Muisca on the border between the area led by the cacique of Vélez and the southern Muisca zipazgo reign. Around 1490 the armies of the northern Muisca led by Michuá and the warriors of the southern Muisca ruled by Saguamanchica confronted each other in the bloody Battle of Chocontá.
The Spanish conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada reached the Colombian highlands in 1537. On 9 June 1537, Pentecostal day, the Spanish arrived in Chocontá and Father Fray Domingo de las Casas named it Pueblo del Espíritu Santo ("Town of the Holy Spirit") with a mass. The village was founded by Tómas López on 6 September 1563 and relocated in 1573.
In 1854 the presidential headquarters was located in Chocontá and on 21 April 1854 Tomás de Herrera was proclaimed president in the rectory of the town. On 9 August 1819 at 2 pm liberator Simón Bolívar arrived to Chocontá and stayed to rest in what currently is the House of Culture after his triumph, defining the fate of the Colombian Republic.
Trivia
- Chocontá is the principal producer of strawberries in Colombia
- The town is nicknamed La ciudad satélite de Colombia ("The satellite town of Colombia") because of the satellite dishes of Telecom
- The Sisga Reservoir is located within Chocontá
- The genus Choconta with species Choconta circulata, found near Bogotá, have been named after Chocontá
Climate
|metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Chocontá (Silos), elevation 2709 m, (1981–2010) |Jan high C = 18.2 |Feb high C = 18.4 |Mar high C = 18.4 |Apr high C = 17.6 |May high C = 17.0 |Jun high C = 15.7 |Jul high C = 15.1 |Aug high C = 15.7 |Sep high C = 16.5 |Oct high C = 17.2 |Nov high C = 17.5 |Dec high C = 17.7 | year high C = 17.1 |Jan mean C = 12.0 |Feb mean C = 12.5 |Mar mean C = 12.8 |Apr mean C = 12.8 |May mean C = 12.6 |Jun mean C = 11.9 |Jul mean C = 11.4 |Aug mean C = 11.6 |Sep mean C = 11.9 |Oct mean C = 12.4 |Nov mean C = 12.6 |Dec mean C = 12.2 | year mean C = 12.2 |Jan low C = 6.6 |Feb low C = 7.6 |Mar low C = 8.2 |Apr low C = 9.0 |May low C = 9.1 |Jun low C = 8.9 |Jul low C = 8.5 |Aug low C = 8.5 |Sep low C = 7.9 |Oct low C = 8.2 |Nov low C = 8.4 |Dec low C = 7.3 | year low C = 8.2 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 17.6 |Feb precipitation mm = 38.9 |Mar precipitation mm = 58.3 |Apr precipitation mm = 87.8 |May precipitation mm = 119.9 |Jun precipitation mm = 129.2 |Jul precipitation mm = 144.3 |Aug precipitation mm = 107.4 |Sep precipitation mm = 70.0 |Oct precipitation mm = 77.6 |Nov precipitation mm = 61.6 |Dec precipitation mm = 24.6 |year precipitation mm = 937.3 | Jan precipitation days = 7 | Feb precipitation days = 9 | Mar precipitation days = 13 | Apr precipitation days = 18 | May precipitation days = 23 | Jun precipitation days = 25 | Jul precipitation days = 25 | Aug precipitation days = 23 | Sep precipitation days = 18 | Oct precipitation days = 17 | Nov precipitation days = 16 | Dec precipitation days = 9 | year precipitation days = 202 | Jan humidity = 83 | Feb humidity = 83 | Mar humidity = 84 | Apr humidity = 87 | May humidity = 88 | Jun humidity = 90 | Jul humidity = 91 | Aug humidity = 90 | Sep humidity = 87 | Oct humidity = 86 | Nov humidity = 86 | Dec humidity = 85 | year humidity = 87 |Jan sun = 204.6 |Feb sun = 163.7 |Mar sun = 145.7 |Apr sun = 111.0 |May sun = 114.7 |Jun sun = 75.0 |Jul sun = 96.1 |Aug sun = 108.5 |Sep sun = 123.0 |Oct sun = 133.3 |Nov sun = 138.0 |Dec sun = 182.9 |year sun = |Jand sun = 6.6 |Febd sun = 5.8 |Mard sun = 4.7 |Aprd sun = 3.7 |Mayd sun = 3.7 |Jund sun = 2.5 |Juld sun = 3.1 |Augd sun = 3.5 |Sepd sun = 4.1 |Octd sun = 4.3 |Novd sun = 4.6 |Decd sun = 5.9 |yeard sun = |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:Iglesia-Choconta.jpg|Church File:Estación del Ferrocarril - Chocontá.jpg|Train station Chocontá File:Choconta station.JPG|Train station
References
References
- [http://www.citypopulation.de/en/colombia/cundinamarca/25183/ Citypopulation.de]
- Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952) p. 403
- {{in lang. es [http://www.choconta-cundinamarca.gov.co/informacion_general.shtml Official website Chocontá] {{Webarchive. link. (10 March 2014)
- {{in lang. es [http://www.choconta-cundinamarca.gov.co/informacion_general.shtml#historia History of Chocontá] {{Webarchive. link. (10 March 2014)
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