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The historical work that Alonso Cabrera Reyes carries out on Chitagá if he takes the following story: ´´ On the slopes of the Páramo del Almorzadero, the last municipality of Norte de Santander extends beyond the limits of Santander and Boyacá. In these lands, before the conquering cliff, the Chitaga aborigines resided, perhaps Luis Efraín Gómez Leal in his work ´´ Historia de los Chitareros´´ (1917 Arciniégas Fund), who were united by the branch of the Chitarero people that emerged from the tree. Atlantic Caribbean the Quechua, which inhabited the Andes.

Bishop Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita in his notes ("General History" - 1941), says that the Chitarero domains extended between the towers of Tunja and Mérida.

Don Baltasar de Balhermoso, were originally commissioned to the Indians of Chitagá

With the residents of the city, who were at the head of Captain Francisco Sánchez in the late afternoon for the Royal Provision of October 7, 1550. On the title of the Hearing, on March 19 and 15, Captain Antonio of Segovia and the commissioner the Indians of Chitagá, who posed next to Captain Sánchez.





Full name: Chitagá

Foundation: December 12, 1804.

Founder: Don Carlos Vera.

Population: 2005 DANE Census: 10,179 inhabitants.

Altitude: 2,350 meters above sea level.

Extension: 1200 Km2

Climate: 16 degrees C.



Distance to Cúcuta: 123 Km

Geographic coordinates: Longitude west of Greenwich 72º 40´, North latitude 7º 08´

Limits: North: Cácota, Labateca and Pamplona,

South: Department of Santander,

East: Toledo and Boyacá Department,

West: Silos.



Administrative divition:

Rivers: Chitagá, Carabá, Valegrá, Tura, Porvenir, Rotambria, Ratón and the streams La Viuda, El Arpero, La Represa, El Ahogado, La Seria.

Western region

Economy:

The agricultural production of potatoes is its main agricultural product, among other vegetables, curuba and deciduous and friable.

Production of cattle, horses, pigs and poultry





Parties:

Agricultural fair

Saint John Nepomuk

Parish Party

July 16: Virgen del Carmen

August 15: Virgin of Perpetual Help, patron saint

Tourist sites:

Royal Bridge

Páramo el Almorzadero

Casa Teja, Laguna el Salado

La Samaria Waterfall

Colonial house

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