Tunja
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Harold Crick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tunja Airport and Iglesia San Francisco.
Tunja Airport
Aerodrome
Tunja Airport is a high-elevation airport serving Tunja, the capital of Boyacá Department in Colombia. The airport and city lay between two large north–south ridges, with the airport on a slight rise east of the city.
Tunja
- Type: City with 200,000 residents
- Description: capital of Boyacá Department
- Categories: municipality of Colombia, city in Colombia, big city, and locality
- Location: Boyacá, Andino, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.5324° or 5° 31′ 57″ northLongitude
-73.3616° or 73° 21′ 42″ westPopulation
200,000Elevation
2,693 metres (8,835 feet)United Nations Location Code
CO TUNOpen location code
67Q8GJJQ+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 5548746213OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Tunja from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Tunja” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تونخا”
- Asturian: “Tunja (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Tunja”
- Azerbaijani: “Tunxa”
- Basque: “Tunja”
- Belarusian: “Тунха”
- Bengali: “তুঞ্জা”
- Bulgarian: “Тунха”
- Catalan: “Tunja”
- Cebuano: “Tunja”
- Chinese: “Tunja”
- Chinese: “通哈”
- Czech: “Tunja”
- Danish: “Tunja”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tunja”
- Dutch: “Tunja”
- Esperanto: “Tunja”
- Finnish: “Tunja”
- French: “Tunja”
- Galician: “Tunja”
- German: “Tunja”
- Greek: “Τούνχα”
- Gujarati: “તુજા”
- Hebrew: “טונחה”
- Hindi: “तंजा”
- Hungarian: “Tunja”
- Indonesian: “Tunja”
- Irish: “Tunja”
- Italian: “Tunja”
- Japanese: “トゥンハ”
- Kannada: “ತುಂಜ”
- Korean: “툰하”
- Korean: “퉁하”
- Kotava: “Tunja”
- Ladino: “Tunja”
- Latvian: “Tunha”
- Lithuanian: “Tuncha”
- Macedonian: “Тунха”
- Malagasy: “Tunja”
- Malay: “Tunja”
- Marathi: “तूंज”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tunja”
- Moksha: “Тунха”
- Northern Frisian: “Tunja (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Tunja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tunja”
- Norwegian: “Tunja”
- Ossetian: “Тунхæ”
- Persian: “تونخا”
- Polish: “Tunja”
- Portuguese: “Tunja”
- Quechua: “Tunja”
- Russian: “Тунха”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tunja”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tunja”
- Sinhala: “ටුන්ජා, කොලොම්බියාව”
- Sinhala: “ටුන්ජා”
- Slovenian: “Tunja”
- Spanish: “Tunja”
- Swedish: “Tunja”
- Tagalog: “Tunja”
- Tamil: “துஞ்சா”
- Tatar: “Тунха”
- Telugu: “టంజా”
- Thai: “ตุงฮา”
- Turkish: “Tunja (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Tunja belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Tunja”
- Ukrainian: “Тунха”
- Urdu: “تونخا”
- Uzbek: “Tunja”
- Venetian: “Tunja”
- Vietnamese: “Tunja”
- Volapük: “Tunja”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tunja”
- Western Panjabi: “تنجا”
- Wu Chinese: “通哈”
- Yoruba: “Tunja”
- “Tunja”
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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 “Tunja”. Photo: Harold Crick, CC BY-SA 3.0.