Siachoque
title: "Siachoque" 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/Siachoque" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Siachoque |
| settlement_type | Municipality and town |
| image_skyline | Siachoque parque.JPG |
| image_caption | Central square Siachoque |
| image_flag | Flag of Siachoque (Boyacá).svg |
| image_map | Colombia - Boyaca - Siachoque.svg |
| mapsize | 250px |
| map_caption | Location of the municipality and town of Siachoque 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 | Central Boyacá Province |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Jairo Grijalba Lancheros |
| (2020–2023) | |
| established_title | Founded |
| established_date | 2 August 1556 |
| founder | Friar Jerónimo de Peralta |
| area_total_km2 | 125 |
| population_as_of | 2015 |
| population_total | 8964 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| population_urban | 1574 |
| timezone | Colombia Standard Time |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| elevation_m | 2760 |
| website | Official website |
| :: |
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Siachoque is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Siachoque is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of 21 km from the department capital Tunja. It borders Toca in the north, Rondón and Viracachá in the south, in the east Toca, Pesca and Rondón and in the west Soracá and Chivatá.
Etymology
The name Siachoque comes from the Chibcha language of the Muisca people who inhabited the central highlands of present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest. It is composed of the words Si; "here", a; "from, taste, smell", chó; "good" and que; "vigorous fortress", translating as "place of good smells and strong and vigorous cultures" or "Land of the vigorous taste".
History
Siachoque was part of the loose Muisca Confederation, the former country in the Colombian Andes and the cacique of Siachoque was loyal to the zaque of Hunza. At the defeat of the latter the municipality became part of the New Kingdom of Granada and modern Siachoque was founded on August 2, 1556 by friar Jerónimo de Peralta.
Economy
Main economical activities in Siachoque are agriculture; potatoes, Solanum phureja (papa criolla), maize, oat, barley and wheat, livestock farming and processing of meat and dairy products.
Gallery
File:Siachoque parque1.JPG|Central square Siachoque File:Capilla Doctrinera Siachoque.jpg|Chapel File:Siachoque rural 02.JPG|Rural area File:Siachoque rural 01.JPG|Rural area
References
References
- {{in lang. es [http://www.siachoque-boyaca.gov.co/informacion_general.shtml Official website Siachoque]
- es [http://www.excelsio.net/2011/11/sabe-el-origen-del-nombre-de-su.html Etymology Siachoque] - Excelsio.net
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