Ubaté (originally Villa San Diego de Ubaté) is a town and municipality in the
Ubaté Province, part of
Cundinamarca Department,
Colombia
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. Ubaté is the capital of the province with the same name and situated in the
Ubaté–Chiquinquirá Valley of the
Altiplano Cundiboyacense
The Altiplano Cundiboyacense () is a high plateau located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá. The altiplano corresponds to the ancient territory of the Muisca. The Alt ...
. The urban centre is located at an altitude of and from the capital
Bogotá
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. The province borders the department of
Boyacá in the north, the
Rionegro Province
Rionegro Province is one of the 15 provinces in the Cundinamarca Department, in Colombia.
Provinces of Cundinamarca Department
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in the west, the
Central Savanna Province
Central Savanna Province ( es, Sabana Centro) is one of the fifteen provinces of Cundinamarca, in the country of Colombia. It is located in the central area of the department, and has 11 municipalities. The province capital is the city of Zipaqu ...
in the south and in the east and southeast the
Almeidas Province
Almeidas Province ( es, Provincia de Almeidas, ) is one of the 15 provinces in the Cundinamarca Department, Colombia. Almeidas borders to the east with the Boyacá Department to the north with the Ubaté Province, to the west with the Central Sav ...
.
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Etymology
The name Ubaté comes from the native name "Ebate" meaning "Bloodied land" or "Sower of the mouth".[
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History
The area of Ubaté before the Spanish conquest
The Spanish Empire ( es, link=no, Imperio español), also known as the Hispanic Monarchy ( es, link=no, Monarquía Hispánica) or the Catholic Monarchy ( es, link=no, Monarquía Católica) was a colonial empire governed by Spain and its predece ...
was inhabited by the Muisca, organised in a loose confederation of rulers called the Muisca Confederation
The Muisca Confederation was a loose confederation of different Muisca rulers (''zaques'', ''zipas'', ''iraca'', and ''tundama'') in the central Andean highlands of present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest of northern South America. T ...
. Initially loyal to the ''zaque
When the Spanish arrived in the central Colombian highlands, the region was organized into the Muisca Confederation, which had two rulers; the ''zipa'' was the ruler of the southern part and based in Muyquytá. The ''hoa'' was the ruler of the ...
'' of Hunza, Ubaté changed rule around 1490 when it was submitted by ''zipa
When the Spanish arrived in the central Colombian highlands, the region was organized into the Muisca Confederation, which had two rulers; the ''zipa'' was the ruler of the southern part and based in Muyquytá. The ''hoa'' was the ruler of the ...
'' Saguamanchica.[Restrepo Arcila, 2002, p.179]
Modern Ubaté was founded on April 12, 1592, by Bernardo de Albornoz.[
It is known as the "Milk Capital of Colombia", for a ]Gothic style
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
cathedral and the San Luis Convent.
Economy
The main activities of Ubaté are agriculture
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people ...
and livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to ani ...
farming.[
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Gallery
References
Bibliography
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Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department
Populated places established in 1592
1592 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Muisca Confederation
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