Tunja

Tunja is a city in northeast and the capital of the department. It is very much a college town, with several universities despite its small size.
tunja-boyaca.gov.co
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Harold Crick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • City with 200,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,693 metres (8,835 feet)
  • Description: capital of Boyacá Department

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tunja Airport and Iglesia San Francisco.
is a high-elevation airport serving…
Nelsonc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Tunja

This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Latitude
5.5324° or 5° 31′ 57″ north
Longitude
-73.3616° or 73° 21′ 42″ west
UN/LOCODE
CO TUN
Open location code
67Q8GJJQ+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5548746213
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3666608
Wiki­data ID
Q236744

Satellite Map

Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Tunja” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቱንጃ”
  • Arabic: “تونخا”
  • Asturian: “Tunja (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Tunja”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tunja”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tunxa”
  • Basque: “Tunja”
  • Belarusian: “Тунха”
  • Bengali: “তুঞ্জা”
  • Bengali: “তুনজা”
  • Bulgarian: “Тунха”
  • Catalan: “Tunja”
  • Cebuano: “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”
  • Hausa: “Tunja”
  • Hebrew: “טונחה”
  • Hindi: “तुंख़ा”
  • Hindi: “तुंजा”
  • Hungarian: “Tunja”
  • Indonesian: “Tunja”
  • Irish: “Tunja”
  • Italian: “Tunja”
  • Japanese: “トゥンハ”
  • Javanese: “Tunja”
  • Kannada: “ತುಂಜ”
  • Kazakh: “Туньха”
  • Kirghiz: “Туньха”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Tunja”
  • Ossetian: “Тунхæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੁਂਜਾ”
  • Persian: “تونخا”
  • Polish: “Tunja”
  • Portuguese: “Tunja”
  • Pushto: “تونجا”
  • Quechua: “Tunja”
  • Russian: “Тунха”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tunja”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tunja”
  • Sinhala: “ටුන්ජා, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ටුන්ජා”
  • Slovenian: “Tunja”
  • Somali: “Tunja”
  • Spanish: “Tunja”
  • Swahili: “Tunja”
  • Swedish: “Tunja”
  • Tagalog: “Tunja”
  • Tajik: “Туньха”
  • Tamil: “துஞ்சா”
  • Tatar: “Тунха”
  • Tatar: “Туньха”
  • Telugu: “టంజా”
  • Thai: “ตุงฮา”
  • Turkish: “Tunja (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Tunja belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Tunja”
  • Ukrainian: “Тунха”
  • Urdu: “تنجہ”
  • Urdu: “تونخا”
  • Uzbek: “Tunja”
  • Venetian: “Tunja”
  • Vietnamese: “Tunja”
  • Volapük: “Tunja”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tunja”
  • Western Panjabi: “تنجا”
  • Wu Chinese: “通哈”
  • Yoruba: “Tunja”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Tunja”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Las Nieves and Portal de Otoño.

Boyacá: Highlights

Learn more about Sogamoso and Villa de Leyva.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.