Boyacá
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.Photo: Petruss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Angeles.Brissia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 5,090 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Boyacá
- Also known as: “Boyaca-Boyaca” and “Boyacá, Boyacá”
Boyacá
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Boyacá, Andino, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.4545° or 5° 27′ 16″ northLongitude
-73.3615° or 73° 21′ 42″ westPopulation
5,090Elevation
2,411 metres (7,910 feet)Open location code
67Q8FJ3Q+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 426325196OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3688539Wikidata 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”
- Pampanga: “Boyakâ”
- 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”
- Ukrainian: “Бояка (муніципалітет)”
- Ukrainian: “Бояка”
- Uzbek: “Boyacá”
- Vietnamese: “Boyacá, Boyacá”
- Vietnamese: “Boyacá”
- Waray (Philippines): “Boyacá, Boyacá”
- Waray (Philippines): “Boyacá”
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