Villa de Leyva
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,100 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Boyacá
- Also known as: “Villa de Leiva”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chíquiza.
Chíquiza
Town
Photo: Petruss, Public domain.
Chíquiza is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian Department of Boyacá. Chíquiza was called San Pedro de Iguaque until July 17, 2003, when the name was changed to Chíquiza. Chíquiza is situated 5 km southeast of Villa de Leyva.
Villa de Leyva
- Category: municipality of Colombia
- Location: Boyacá, Andino, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.6337° or 5° 38′ 1″ northLongitude
-73.5235° or 73° 31′ 25″ westPopulation
5,100Elevation
2,139 metres (7,018 feet)Open location code
67Q8JFMG+FHOpenStreetMap ID
node 5578245262
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Villa de Leyva” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Villa de Leyva (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Villa de Leyva”
- Catalan: “Villa de Leyva”
- Cebuano: “Villa de Leyva”
- Chinese: “萊瓦鎮”
- Dutch: “Villa de Leyva”
- French: “Villa de Leyva”
- Galician: “Villa de Leyva”
- Georgian: “ვილია-დე-ლეივა”
- German: “Villa de Leyva”
- Irish: “Villa de Leyva”
- Italian: “Villa de Leyva”
- Kotava: “Villa de Leyva”
- Ladino: “Villa de Leyva”
- Lithuanian: “Vilja de Lejva”
- Malay: “Villa de Leyva”
- Persian: “ویلا د لیوا”
- Polish: “Villa de Leyva”
- Portuguese: “Villa de Leyva”
- Russian: “Вилья де Лейва”
- Russian: “Вилья-де-Лейва”
- Slovenian: “Villa de Leyva”
- Spanish: “La Bella Villa”
- Spanish: “Leiva”
- Spanish: “Leyva”
- Spanish: “Villa de Leyva”
- Swedish: “Villa de Leyva”
- Tagalog: “Villa de Leyva”
- Turkish: “Villa de Leyva (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Villa de Leyva belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Villa de Leyva”
- Ukrainian: “Вілья-де-Лейва”
- Uzbek: “Villa de Leyva”
- Vietnamese: “Villa de Leyva”
- Waray (Philippines): “Villa de Leyva”
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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 “Villa de Leyva”. Photo: Novoaparra, CC BY-SA 3.0.