Sesquilé
title: "Sesquilé" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["municipalities-of-cundinamarca-department", "populated-places-established-in-1600", "1600-establishments-in-the-spanish-empire", "populated-places-of-the-muisca-confederation", "villages-in-colombia"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesquilé" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Sesquilé |
| settlement_type | Municipality and town |
| image_skyline | Sequile.jpg |
| image_caption | View of Sesquilé |
| image_flag | Flag of Sesquilé (Cundinamarca).svg |
| image_seal | Escudo de Sesquilé.svg |
| image_map | Colombia - Cundinamarca - Sesquilé.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 |
| established_title | Founded |
| established_date | 12 October 1600 |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Nelson Uriel Robayo López |
| (2016-2019) | |
| area_total_km2 | 141 |
| population_as_of | 2015 |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | 13936 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| population_urban | 3468 |
| coordinates | |
| timezone | Colombia Standard Time |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| elevation_m | 2595 |
| website | Official website |
| :: |
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Sesquilé is a town and municipality in Almeidas Province in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. Sesquilé in the Chibcha language of the Muisca means "hot water".
Sesquilé is adjacent to Tominé Reservoir and nearby Lake Guatavita, the suspected site of the El Dorado legend.
Gallery
File:Muisca raft Legend of El Dorado Offerings of gold.jpg|The Muisca raft represents the legend of El Dorado File:LasTresViejas.JPG|Las Tres Viejas (left) and Cerro de Covandonga (right) File:LagunaDeGuatavita.JPG|Lake Guatavita File:Iglesia Sesquile.JPG|Church of Sesquilé File:Sesquile Catedral.jpg|Church File:Vista Iglesia de Sesquilé.jpg|Church File:Capilla Colonial de Sesquilè.jpg|Colonial chapel
References
References
- {{in lang. es [http://www.dane.gov.co/files/investigaciones/poblacion/proyepobla06_20/ProyeccionMunicipios2005_2020.xls DANE, population Sesquilé]
- {{in lang. es [http://www.sesquile-cundinamarca.gov.co/ Official website Sesquilé] - accessed 06-05-2016
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