Boyacá
Boyacá is a department in the Andino region in central Colombia, over the Cordillera Oriental mountain range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tunja and Sogamoso.
Tunja
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Tunja is a city in northeast Colombia and the capital of the Boyacá department. It is very much a college town, with several universities despite its small size.
Sogamoso
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Sogamoso is a city in the department of Boyacá in Colombia. It is 2,492 m above sea level and the population is around 130,000.
Villa de Leyva
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Villa de Leyva is a charming old colonial city in the Boyacá region of Colombia. Calm and quiet on weekdays, it gets flooded by tourists from Bogotá on the weekends.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Boyacá and Topaga.
Boyacá
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Boyacá is a city in Boyacá Department, Colombia. 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.
Topaga
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Tópaga is a town and municipality in the Sugamuxi Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Tópaga is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with the urban center at an altitude of 2,900 metres while the topography varies over the municipality from 2,400 metres to 3,200 metres.
Tibasosa
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Tibasosa is a municipality in the Sugamuxi Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Tibasosa borders Duitama and Nobsa in the north, Nobsa and Sogamoso in the east, Firavitoba in the south and Paipa in the west.
Ráquira
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Ráquira is a small town in Boyacá known for its Sunday artisan market with traditional northern Andean pottery & hand-woven goods.
Monguí
Monguí is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the Sugamuxi Province a subregion of Boyaca. It was founded in 1601. Monguí was named a Pueblo Patrimonio of Colombia in 2010.Cocuy National Park
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The Sierra Nevada del Cocuy Chita or Guican National Natural Park (or Sierra Nevada de Chita or Sierra Nevada de Güicán, Spanish: Parque Natural Sierra Nevada del Cocuy Chita o Guican is a national park and a series of highlands and glaciated peaks located within the Cordillera Oriental mountain range in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, at its easternmost point.
Boyacá
- Type: department of Colombia with 1,220,000 residents
- Description: department of Colombia
- Also known as: “Boyaca Department” and “Boyacá Department”
- Neighbors: Antioquia, Apure, and Cundinamarca
- Location: Andino, Colombia, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Boyacá” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Boyacá (departement)”
- Afrikaans: “Boyacá”
- Arabic: “إدارة بوياكا”
- Asturian: “Boyacá”
- Asturian: “departamentu de Boyacá”
- Azerbaijani: “Boyaka”
- Basque: “Boyacá”
- Belarusian: “Баяка”
- Bengali: “বয়াকা বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Boyacá”
- Bulgarian: “Бояка”
- Catalan: “Boyacá”
- Catalan: “Departament de Boyacá”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Boyacá”
- Chavacano: “Boyaca”
- Chavacano: “Boyacá”
- Chinese: “Boyacá”
- Chinese: “博亚卡省”
- Chinese: “博亞卡省”
- Croatian: “Boyacá”
- Czech: “Boyacá”
- Czech: “Departement Boyacá”
- Danish: “Boyacá Department”
- Dimli (individual language): “Boyaca”
- Dimli (individual language): “Boyacá”
- Dutch: “Boyacá”
- Esperanto: “Bojakao”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Bojakao”
- Finnish: “Boyacá”
- French: “Boyaca”
- French: “Boyacá”
- Galician: “Boyacá”
- Georgian: “ბოიაკის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Boyaca”
- German: “Boyacá”
- German: “CO-BOY”
- German: “Departamento de Boyacá”
- Greek: “Μπογιακά”
- Gujarati: “બોયાકા વિભાગ”
- Hebrew: “בויאקה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז בויאקה”
- Hindi: “बोयाका विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Boyacá megye”
- Ido: “Boyacá”
- Iloko: “Boyacá”
- Iloko: “Departamento ti Boyacá”
- Indonesian: “Boyaca”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Boyacá”
- Irish: “Boyacá”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Boyacá”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Boyacá”
- Japanese: “ボヤカ県”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಯ್ಕಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “보야카”
- Korean: “보야카주”
- Kotava: “KolombiaBoyacáWinka”
- Ladino: “Boyacá”
- Latvian: “Bojasas departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Bojaka departamentas”
- Lithuanian: “Bojaka”
- Lithuanian: “Bojakos departamentas”
- Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Boyacá”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran Boyacá”
- Marathi: “बॉयका विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Boyacá”
- Northern Frisian: “Boyacá (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Boyacá”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Boyaca”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Boyacá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Boyacá-departementet”
- Norwegian: “Boyacá”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Boyacá”
- Ossetian: “Бояка”
- Persian: “بخش بویاکا”
- Persian: “شهرستان بویاکا”
- Polish: “Boyaca”
- Polish: “Boyacá”
- Portuguese: “Boiacá”
- Portuguese: “Boyacá”
- Quechua: “Boyacá suyu”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Boyaca”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Boyacá”
- Russian: “Бояка”
- Samogitian: “Buojakas departaments”
- Scots: “Boyacá Depairtment”
- Scots: “Boyacá”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Boyacá”
- Serbian: “Бојака”
- Serbian: “Департман Бојака”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Boyacá (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Boyacá”
- Sinhala: “බොයකා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
- Sinhala: “බොයකා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovenian: “Departamento de Boyacá”
- Slovenian: “Departma Boyacá”
- Spanish: “Boyaca”
- Spanish: “Boyacá”
- Spanish: “Departamento Boyaca”
- Spanish: “Departamento Boyacá”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Boyaca”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Boyacá”
- Spanish: “Departamento del Boyaca”
- Spanish: “Departamento del Boyacá”
- Swedish: “Boyaca”
- Swedish: “Boyacá”
- Tagalog: “Boyacá”
- Tamil: “போயக்கா துறை”
- Telugu: “బోయాకా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “బోయాకా విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโบยากา”
- Turkish: “Boyaca”
- Turkish: “Boyacá”
- Ukrainian: “Бояка”
- Urdu: “بویاکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “بویاکا محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Boyacá”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Boyacá”
- Waray (Philippines): “Boyaca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Boyacá”
- Wayuu: “Woyakaat”
- Western Armenian: “Պոյաքայի վարչակազմ”
- Western Panjabi: “بویاکا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “博亚卡省”
- Yoruba: “Boyacá Department”
- “Boyacá”
- “Buojakas departaments”
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