Boyacá Department
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Boyacá is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".
El Libertador Simón Bolívar crossing the Páramo de Pisba.
Villa de Leyva
Páramo of Rabanal, Boyacá
Satellite view of Lake Tota. Aquitania is the town in the east side of the lake
Gonzalo Suárez Rendón
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Gonzalo Suárez Rendón was a Spanish crusader and conquistador, known as the founder of the capital of Boyacá; Tunja, second city of the New Kingdom of Granada. A veteran of the Italian Wars, he also fought at the Conquest of Tunis, Germany, Austria and Hungary, before taking part in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and later by his brother Hernán Pérez de Quesada. On August 6, 1539, he founded Tunja on the site of the former seat of the hoa (ruler) of the Hunza.
Image: Casa del fundador 2
"La Madonna de Bogota" by Raphael, awarded to Gonzalo Suárez Rendón by Emperor Charles V after the Battle of Pavia.
Casa Fundador Gonzalo Suárez Rendón on the Plaza Bolívar in Tunja