Tunja

Tunja [' tuŋxa ] is the capital of the province of Boyacá, Colombia. The city is located on a plateau on the western edge of the Eastern Cordillera at an altitude of about 2800 m. She is so - even before Bogotá - the highest city in Colombia.

Tunja is located approximately 150 kilometers northeast of the capital Bogotá and has (as of 2011 ) about 170,000 inhabitants. The city was founded on August 6, 1539 by the Spaniard Gonzalo Suárez Rendón from the existing for several centuries Muisca settlement " Hunza " out.

During the struggle for independence in the early 19th century Tunja was a stronghold of the revolutionaries. In the near Tunja it came in 1819 to the Battle of Boyacá.

Today the town is mainly for its universities and its colonial architecture, especially its many churches, famous. Tunja is the seat of the Archdiocese of Tunja.

Tunja is the home city of the football club FC Patriotas.

Tunja is the birthplace of the poet Alfredo Gómez Jaime (1874-1946) and the cyclist Nairo Quintana Rojas (* 1990).

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