Cucunubá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the

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, part of the department of Cundinamarca. It borders with the municipalities of Ubaté, Lenguazaque,

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, Chocontá,

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Geography

The urban centre of the municipality is located in the Ubaté Valley at an altitude of , while other parts stretch over the mountainous sectors of the

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of the Colombian

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. The urban centre is at a distance of from the capital

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the largest ...

Etymology

The name Cucunubá comes from Chibcha and means "Similarity to a face".Etymology Cucunubá
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History

Cucunubá in the times 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 predec ...

was part of the

Muisca Confederation The Muisca Confederation was a loose confederation of different Muisca rulers (''zaques'', ''zipas'', ''iraca'', and ''tundama'') in the central Andes, Andean highlands of present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, Spanish ...

, a loose confederation of rulers of the

Muisca The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan l ...

. Modern Cucunubá was founded on August 2, 1600, by Luis Enríquez.

Economy

Main economical activity of Cucunubá is

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. More than half of the municipality's area is covered with farmfields 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 anima ...

farming producers. Main agricultural products are

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es, peas and

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cucunuba Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department Populated places established in 1600 1600 establishments in the Spanish Empire Muisca Confederation Muysccubun