Boyacá

Boyacá 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.
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  • Type: Town with 731 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Boyacá
  • Also known as: Boyaca-Boyaca” and “Boyacá, Boyacá

Boyacá

Latitude
5.4545° or 5° 27′ 16″ north
Longitude
-73.3615° or 73° 21′ 42″ west
Population
731
Elevation
2,411 metres (7,910 feet)
Open location code
67Q8FJ3Q+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 426325196
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3688539
Wiki­data ID
Q1654749
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Boyacá” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Boyacá (Colombia)
  • Asturian: Boyacá
  • Catalan: Boyacá (municipi)
  • Catalan: Boyacá
  • Cebuano: Boyacá
  • Chinese: Boyacá
  • Chinese: 博亚卡
  • Chinese: 博亞卡
  • Dutch: Boyacá
  • French: Boyacá
  • Galician: Boyacá, Boyacá
  • Galician: Boyacá
  • Georgian: ბოიაკა
  • Greek: Μποϊακά
  • Irish: Boyacá
  • Italian: Boyaca
  • Italian: Boyacá
  • Italian: Boyacà
  • Kotava: Boyacá
  • Malay: Boyacá, Boyacá
  • Malay: Boyacá
  • Min Nan Chinese: Boyacá
  • Persian: بویاکا (بویاکا)
  • Persian: بویاکا
  • Polish: Boyacá
  • Portuguese: Boyacá
  • Russian: Бояка
  • Scots: Boyacá, Boyacá
  • Scots: Boyacá
  • Spanish: Boyaca
  • Spanish: Boyacá
  • Swedish: Boyacá
  • Tagalog: Boyacá, Boyacá
  • Tagalog: Boyacá
  • Turkish: Boyaca (belediye)
  • Turkish: Boyacá (belediye)
  • Turkish: Boyaca belediyesi
  • Turkish: Boyacá belediyesi
  • Turkish: Boyacá
  • Uzbek: Boyacá
  • Vietnamese: Boyacá, Boyacá
  • Vietnamese: Boyacá
  • Waray (Philippines): Boyacá, Boyacá
  • Waray (Philippines): Boyacá

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Boyacá”. Photo: Petruss, CC BY-SA 3.0.