Servicios de Boyacá Travel

We offer this touristic routes in 10 towns of Boyacá:

1. Tunja-Villa de Leyva- Ráquira

2. Tunja - El Cocuy

3. Paipa- Nobsa - Iza- Mongui 

4. Jenesano- Tunja - Chiquinquirá

 Boyacá Travel offers transportation, lodging, meals and tour guide, according to your needs.

Tunja

Tunja is the capital of Boyaca state is located 2 hours from bogota (120 km) using a highway in good condition. It is recommend to take clothes for cold climate, the average temperature is of 15 °C., the same as in other parts of the state, on the nights the temperature can drop to 5 °C.

Tunja altitude is 2775 m.s.l. and has a population of 130.000 habitants.

It is the capital of Boyacá Department, whish in the Muisca language means "Land of Blankets" or "Royal Mantle." Tunja is a culture and religious destination par excellence, to go to the downtown take the tree street which take you straight to the Bolivar square and the cathedral. We recommend to take a walk from there, is the best way to enjoy the treasures that Tunja offers in his churches, convents, monasteries and houses, that evoke the baroque, mudejar and renaissance style. Tunja is for that reason a guardian of one of the most valuable art collection.

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 Some Colombians may tell you there's nothing to see in Tunja, but you'd be surprised. The city has preserved its colonial past and as what many purport to be the only surviving founder's house in all Colombia (some say all of Latina America), the Casa del Fundador Gonzalo Suárez Rendón. Many of the Catholic temples share a gold-leaf-on-red motif, most stunningly displayed in the Iglesia de Santo Domingo. Santa Bárbara church houses works embroidered by Juana la Loca, the "mad" mother of Spanish emperor Carlos V. A few fragments of the Muisca indigenous culture remain. The most important part of Tunjano history, however, is the Wars of Independence; 15 kilometers (8 miles) south is where the monumental Batalla de Boyacá was fought, after which the Viceroy of Nueva Granada knew the end of Spanish domination was at hand.

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Mongui

Altitude: 2800 m.s.l.

Temperature: 11 °C

Located at 11 km from Sogamoso, Mongui lies in a mountain, on the mountainside of the Oceta highland, one of the most beautiful highland of the world.

Mongui is well known for the productions of ballons, that are found in the different industries located around the main square. Is a nice town surrounded by colonial houses and stone streets, Mongui is considered one of the most beautiful town of Boyaca.

Oceta Highland:

Located near Monguí. when you start the walk to the highland you can enjoy a beautiful landscape and take a look at the Mongui town, the mountains that surround this places, and the different green tones which indicate the variety of sowed fields.

The recommend place in this highland, are the geological formation that are known as Stone City, the Oceta Cuchillas, the Oti, Barco and Catillo Formation, the Eco hill, Cerro Dagua, Laguna negra and Lagunillas, the Penagos Waterfall and the beautiful Frailejones Valley. Is considered one of the most beautiful highland of the world and best preserved. 

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Iza

Iza is a Colombian Towun located in the province of Sugamuxi in the department of Boyaca. It is located about 90 kilometers east of the city of Tunja.

Touristic Routes:

Bogota - Iza on paved road, dual carriageway until Sogamoso. From Bogota, 147 miles, to Tunja, capital of the Department of Boyacá, and from there, 90 km to the municipality through Paipa, Duitama and Sogamoso. In the province of Sugamuxi Iza ring is within the resort of Lake Tota, which as its name implies has a circular route of about 60 km, starting from Sogamoso happening in your order by Iza, Cuitiva, Tota, Aquitaine and returns to Sogamoso. In this circuit the road is the stretch pavimentadad Sogamoso Iza, 14 km onwards is unpaved but passable. Since Iza can visit the Lake Tota, Colombia's largest and 13 nearby villages that make up the province, meet the Archaeological Museum of Sogamoso Eliezer Silva Celis, named after who discovered the ruins of the Temple of the Sun, the legacy of the Muisca culture, burned by the campaign of conquest of the sixteenth century, the monument to the Vargas Swamp Lancers, commemorating one of the most important meetings of weapons in the Liberty Campaign of New Granada in 1819, designed by Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt.

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The municipality of Iza is characterized by the preservation of its historical content, which is manifested in its pre-Hispanic ancestry, rock art, myths, legends, traditions, local place names, celebrations and crafts such as weaving cotton and wool, using practices and looms of medieval Spain, as well as its colonial architecture set on a path of its streets typically Indian issues meant that its declaration as a Cultural of National Character, by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia in 2002.

Chiquinquirá

Chiquinquirá is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province. Located some 115 km north of Bogotá, Chiquinquirá is 2570m (8432 ft) above sea level and has a yearly average temperature 58°F.

Chiquinquirá is constituted by two zones: the urban zone or town which is formed by approximately 40 neighborhoods between the strata 1 and 4, and the rural zone which is divided in 17 sub zones located around the city.

Chiquinquirá is considered to be the religious capital of Colombia. It is home to the Basílica de Chiquinquirá, which houses the image of the Virgin de Chiquinquirá, the patroness saint of Colombia. Chiquinquirá is a major point of religious pilgrimage (source: Colombia Lonely Planet Guide, 2nd Edition, 1995).

Chiquinquirá Virgin:

Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá or the Virgin of Chiquinquirá is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the northern Andean region of South America. She is the patron saint of Colombia, the Venezuelan state of Zulia, and the town of Caraz in Peru.

In Colombia, her painted image rests in the Basílica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Chiquinquirá, where thousands of pilgrims arrive not only for the Feast Day on July 9, but also every Sunday, when they celebrate masses and processions. On July 3, 1986, Pope John Paul II visited the sanctuary and prayed for peace in Colombia at the feet of the Virgin Mary's image. The title given to the Virgin is from the city of Chiquinquirá, where the first of the Virgin's miraculous manifestations occurred, and where the original image from the sixteenth century is kept.

An image of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá can be found at the Basílica of Maracaibo, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where it is also called La Chinita. Every November 18, the city celebrates the traditional Feast of La Chinita with masses and processions in honor of the Virgin.

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Ráquira

Located 25 km from Villa de Leyva, in chibcha tongue his name means “Town of pots”. It is a municipality which is famous for the productions of pots, mucuras, pitcher, toys, cribs and other decorations, his colonial houses painted in all the colors and decorated with a variety of handicraft work for sell, made with different material like mud, wool, cotton, made Raquira a picturesque town full of colors and joy.

Recommended places:

-Main park, decorated with handicraft sculptures made by the workers of the towns.
-The Candelaria Monastery founded in 1604, declared heritage of Colombia, is located 7 Km. from Raquira.
-Rabanal highland, located between Raquira, Guacheta and Samacá at 3000 m.s.l.

The main factor income of Ráquira are their handicrafts, which are characterized by their work in clay, fabric bags, baskets, clothing, hammocks, pottery and traditional potters.

The clay was worked in the region before the arrival of the Spanish American territories and since then has been the center of the economy, to the point that is currently exported to various parts of the United States and Europe.

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El Cocuy

The Cocuy is a Colombian municipality of the province capital of Gutierrez in the department of Boyaca. It is also called "Snowy City, Haven of Peace." The architectural style of the town is republican and colonial type, with some paved streets, and retain their style homes which were built in order to preserve, restore, conserve and improve the rational use of public spaces and private.

Also does appoint the National Park Cocuy, or the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy.

Ecosystems: Forest ranger in the forest, Andean forest, and snowy wasteland. Fauna: The fauna is characterized by spectacled bears, tapirs moor, deer, golden eagles and ocelots. Vegetation: In the wasteland flora frailejones highlights and the flora, as the yellow timber, Cedar and Totumo among others.

Agricultural activities have been developed in the wilderness area, a situation which puts at risk the ecosystem.

Communities present in the area: U'wa indigenous group that preserved almost intact their traditions and ways of using resources. They are allies of conservation of the protected area. In the west of the park inhabited the Andean mestizo culture.

Weather: Cold, páramo and temperate.

The National Park Cocuy is a strategic ecosystem and it is the maximum height of the Colombian eastern Andes, the Blanco Ritacuba peak (5,330 m). The Nevado of about 3% of the total area of ​​NNP Cocuy (306,000 acres) has more than 20 snow peaks, glacial lakes, deserts, flora and fauna characteristic of the Andean forest.

The main snow-capped peaks stand out: Ritacuba White, Black Ritacuba, Concave, Sugar Loaf, El Castillo, El Toti, San Pablin North, South San Pablin, Portals, The Diamond and The Devil's Pulpit. Gaps are: The Greens, Laguna Grande de la Sierra, La Isla, Plaza, El Avellanal and Lagunillas (Painted, Square, Stop and Crossed).

The area has pockets of rainforest cold floor, moor, and floor superpáramo snow, enormous wealth of flora in virgin state. Strategic Ecosystem Study Nicolas Roa (1998), includes the PNN Cocuy within the category of Strategic Ecosystems whose function is to maintain the basic ecological balance and wealth of natural heritage, it also considers a highly fragile ecosystem pedological, geological and geomorphological and soon intervened.

Recommendations:

Carry equipment for climbing and camping in the mountains, insulation, sleeping bag and cold weather clothing. Transite trails only authorized and accompanied by an official or specialized in high mountain guide. Do not hike alone. Do not leave the group and be aware of your peers. Please abide by the comments and suggestions of officials and authorized guides. Approaching the National Park Office is located in the municipality of El Cocuy, before ascending to the Sierra Nevada for the corresponding registration and more information.

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