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Viracachá

Viracachá

Viracachá is a town and municipality in the Márquez Province, , part of the department of . Viracachá is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at 22 kilometres from the department capital and the small urban center at 2,520 metres above sea level.
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  • Type: Town with 541 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Boyacá
  • Also known as: “Viracacha”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boyacá.

Photo: Angeles.Brissia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in , . It is famous among history buffs as the site of an 1819 battle in which Simon Bolivar led an army fighting for South American independence from the Spanish Empire.

Viracachá

Latitude
5.43502° or 5° 26′ 6″ north
Longitude
-73.29617° or 73° 17′ 46″ west
Population
541
Elevation
2,548 metres (8,360 feet)
Open location code
67Q8CPP3+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 552022392
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3665879
Wiki­data ID
Q1655106
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Viracachá” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Viracachá (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Viracachá”
  • Cebuano: “Viracachá”
  • Chinese: “Viracachá”
  • Chinese: “比拉卡查”
  • Dutch: “Viracacha”
  • Dutch: “Viracachá”
  • French: “Viracachá”
  • Galician: “Viracachá”
  • Georgian: “ვირაკაჩა”
  • Irish: “Viracachá”
  • Italian: “Viracacha”
  • Italian: “Viracachá”
  • Italian: “Viracachà”
  • Kotava: “Viracachá”
  • Malay: “Viracachá”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Viracachá”
  • Persian: “ویراکاچا”
  • Polish: “Viracachá”
  • Portuguese: “Viracachá”
  • Russian: “Виракача”
  • Spanish: “Viracacha”
  • Spanish: “Viracachá”
  • Swedish: “Viracachá”
  • Tagalog: “Viracachá”
  • Turkish: “Viracacha (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Viracachá (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Viracacha belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Viracachá belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Viracachá”
  • Uzbek: “Viracachá”
  • Vietnamese: “Viracachá”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Viracachá”
  • “Viracachá”

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