Motavita

Motavita
Municipality and town
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Location of the municipality and town of Motavita in the Boyacá Department of Colombia.
Coordinates: 05°34′38″N 073°22′02″W / 5.57722°N 73.36722°WCoordinates: 05°34′38″N 073°22′02″W / 5.57722°N 73.36722°W
Country	Colombia
Department	Boyacá Department
Province	Central Boyacá Province
Time zone	Colombia Standard Time (UTC-5)

Motavita is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Central Boyacá Province. It covers approximately 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi).

Name

The name Motavita comes from the Chibcha language and means "washing place to prepare for growing crops," indicating a ceremonial use.^[1]

Geography

Motavita is border to the north by Arcabuco and Cómbita, to the east and south by Tunja, and to the west by Sora and Chíquiza.^[2]

Divisions

Motavita was divided into five cadastral vereda (townships): Centro, Carbonera, Ristá, Salvial and Sote Panelas; however, Sote Panelas had four more veredas split off from it, namely: Frutillal, Versalles, Quebrada Honda and Barro Hondo, thus making nine vereda.^[3]

Notes

1. López, Javier Ocampo (2001). El imaginario en Boyacá: la identidad del pueblo boyacense y su proyección en la simbología regional (Volume 2: El imaginario colectivo en los pensadores boyacenses). Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad Distrital "Francisco José de Caldas". p. 84. ISBN 978-958-9160-90-9.
2. "Motavita: Generalidades: 1.2 Limites (Motavita: Overview: 1.2 Borders)" (PDF) (in Spanish). Government of Boyacá. p. 1.
3. "Motavita: Generalidades: 1.3 División Política (Veredas)" (PDF) (in Spanish). Government of Boyacá. p. 4.