Saboyá
title: "Saboyá" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["municipalities-of-boyacá-department", "populated-places-established-in-1556", "1556-establishments-in-the-spanish-empire", "populated-places-of-the-muisca-confederation"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saboyá" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Saboyá |
| settlement_type | Municipality and town |
| image_skyline | Estación del Ferrocarril Saboyá 2012-09-16 19-57-26.jpg |
| image_caption | Train station Saboyá |
| image_map | Colombia - Boyaca - Saboya.svg |
| mapsize | 250px |
| map_caption | Location of the municipality and town of Saboyá in the Boyacá Department of Colombia. |
| pushpin_mapsize | 300 |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location in Colombia |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Colombia |
| subdivision_type1 | Department |
| subdivision_name1 | Boyacá Department |
| subdivision_type2 | Province |
| subdivision_name2 | Western Boyacá Province |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Jeferson Leonardo Ortiz Sanabria |
| (2020–2023) | |
| established_title | Founded |
| established_date | 4 October 1556 |
| area_total_km2 | 246.9 |
| area_urban_km2 | 0.1 |
| population_as_of | 2015 |
| population_total | 12372 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| population_urban | 789 |
| timezone | Colombia Standard Time |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| elevation_m | 2600 |
| website | Official website |
| :: |
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Saboyá is a town and municipality in the Western Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá.
Etymology
Saboyá is an Italian name brought by European colonizers.
History
Before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca on the central highlands of the Colombian Andes, Saboyá was ruled by a cacique with the same name.
The first encomendero of Saboyá was Pedro de Galeano, brother of Martín Galeano and soldier in the army of Hernán Pérez de Quesada, brother of Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. Modern Saboyá was founded on October 4, 1556.
Simón Bolívar visited Saboyá on three occasions: January 2, 1821, September 6, 1827 and June 9, 1828.
Economy
Main economical activities in Saboyá are agriculture and livestock farming. Among the agricultural products potatoes, maize and the fruits curuba, blackberries, tree tomatoes and strawberries are cultivated.
References
References
- {{in lang. es [http://www.saboya-boyaca.gov.co/informacion_general.shtml Official website Saboyá] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-06-02)
- {{in lang. es [https://conceptosdelahistoria.com/conceptos-politicos/monarquia/casa-de-saboya/] - conceptosdelahistoria.com
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