🇨🇴 Chiquinquirá is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province. Located some 115 km north of Bogotá, Chiquinquirá is 2,556 metres (8,386 ft) above sea level and has a yearly average temperature 58 °F (14 °C).
1Etymology The name Chiquinquirá comes from Chibcha and means "Place of swamps covered with fog".
1Geography and religion Chiquinquirá is constituted by two zones: the urban zone or town which is formed by approximately 40 neighbourhoods between the strata 1 and 4, and the rural zone which is divided in 17 sub zones located around the city.
It is home to the Basílica de Chiquinquirá, which houses the image of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, the patroness saint of Colombia. Chiquinquirá is a major point of religious pilgrimage (source: Colombia Lonely Planet Guide, 2nd Edition, 1995).
1History The area of Chiquinquirá used to be inhabited by the Muisca before the Spanish conquest and Chiquinquirá was an important place in the Chiquinquirá Valley. It was ruled by an independent cacique within the Muisca Confederation. It was never properly founded as a municipality.
In November, 1967, 81 people in Chiquinquirá, most of them children, were fatally poisoned and hundreds more became seriously ill after eating bread that had been made with flour that had been contaminated with a powdered insecticide.
Murder charges would later be filed against a Bogotá truck driver who had delivered the flour and the owner of the bakery that had baked and sold the bread to local residents.
1Geology The Chiquinquirá Sandstone is named after the town.
1Chiquinquirá has a population of over 56,054 people. It is also a part of the larger Boyacá Department.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Chiquinquirá has links with:
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🇬🇫 Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni 5.499
🇫🇷 Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni 5.499
🇨🇦 Bois-des-Filion -73.75
🇨🇦 Châteauguay -73.75
🇨🇦 Sainte-Julienne -73.717
🇨🇦 Saint-Laurent -73.707
🇨🇦 Bois-des-Filion -73.75
🇨🇦 Châteauguay -73.75
🇺🇸 White Plains -73.767
🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs -73.783
🇺🇸 New Rochelle -73.786
🇨🇦 Dollard-des-Ormeaux -73.793
🇨🇦 Pierrefonds-Roxboro -73.8
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🇨🇴 Yopal -72.406,5.347 d: 152.2
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🇨🇴 Villavicencio -73.633,4.15 d: 165.4
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🇨🇴 Piedecuesta -73,7.083 d: 181.3
Antipodal to: Chiquinquirá 106.25,-5.633
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🇮🇩 Serang 106.15,-6.117 d: 19960.2
🇮🇩 Tangerang 106.633,-6.167 d: 19942.2
🇮🇩 Ciapus 106.467,-6.267 d: 19940.7
🇮🇩 Kapuk 106.751,-6.139 d: 19936.1
🇮🇩 Puri Kembangan 106.734,-6.188 d: 19933.4
🇮🇩 Jakarta Barat 106.759,-6.168 d: 19933.2
🇮🇩 Kota Tua 106.813,-6.135 d: 19931.5
🇮🇩 Kembangan 106.756,-6.197 d: 19931.1
🇮🇩 Kebon Jeruk 106.769,-6.197 d: 19930.1