Machetá
title: "Machetá" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["municipalities-of-cundinamarca-department", "populated-places-established-in-1593", "1593-establishments-in-the-spanish-empire", "climbing-areas-of-colombia"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machetá" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Machetá |
| settlement_type | Municipality and town |
| image_skyline | Macheta 1.jpg |
| image_caption | View of Machetá |
| image_flag | Flag of Machetá.svg |
| image_seal | Escudo de Machetá.svg |
| image_map | Colombia - Cundinamarca - Machetá.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 | Rafael Mauricio Forero Briceño |
| (2016-2019) | |
| established_title | Founded |
| established_date | 1593 |
| founder | Miguel de Ibarra |
| area_total_km2 | 229.35 |
| area_urban_km2 | 5.35 |
| population_as_of | 2015 |
| population_total | 6316 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| population_urban | 1498 |
| coordinates | |
| timezone | Colombia Standard Time |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| elevation_m | 2094 |
| website | Official website |
| :: |
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Machetá is a municipality and town of Colombia in Almeidas Province of the department of Cundinamarca. Machetá is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at 82.6 km from the capital Bogotá and 74.3 km from Tunja. It borders Tibiritá and Manta in the east, Chocontá and Sesquilé in the west and Guatavita and Gachetá in the south.
Etymology
In the Chibcha language of the Muisca, Machetá means "Your honourable farmfields".
History
Machetá in the times before the Spanish conquest was inhabited by the Muisca, organized in their Muisca Confederation. Machetá was ruled by the zaque based in Hunza, currently known as the capital of Boyacá Department Tunja.
Modern Machetá was founded in 1593 by Miguel de Ibarra after a soldier of the army of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada first established the town in 1540.
Economy
Main economical activity of Machetá is agriculture with products as papa criolla, arracacha, peas and tomatoes.
References
References
- {{in lang. es [http://www.macheta-cundinamarca.gov.co/informacion_general.shtml Official website Machetá] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-06-06)
- {{in lang. es {{aut. Espejo Olaya, Maria Bernarda (1999) [http://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/thesaurus/pdf/54/TH_54_003_424_0.pdf Notas sobre toponimia en algunas coplas colombianas] Thesaurus. Tomo LIV, Núm. 3. page 1120.
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