Manta, Cundinamarca
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Interior of the San Joaquín church of Manta
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| Motto: Retazo de cielo (Sky piece) | |||
 Location of the town and municipality of Manta in Cundinamarca Department |
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 Manta
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| Coordinates: 5°05′N 73°35′W / 5.083°N 73.583°WCoordinates: 5°05′N 73°35′W / 5.083°N 73.583°W | |||
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 Colombia
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| Region | Andean Region | ||
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 Cundinamarca
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| Province | Almeidas Province | ||
| Founded | 24 July 1773 | ||
| Founded by | José Joaquín Pompeya | ||
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| • Mayor | Edgar Ernesto Robayo Guerrero (2016-2019) |
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| Area | |||
| • Municipality | 105 km2 (41 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 1,924 m (6,312 ft) | ||
| Population (2015) | |||
| • Municipality | 4,719 | ||
| • Urban | 1,285 | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
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Manta is a municipality and town located in the northeast of the department of Cundinamarca (Colombia), 90 kilometres (56 mi) from Bogotá. It is located in the Almeidas Province in the Tenza Valley. Manta borders to the north Tibiritá, to the west Machetá, to the south Gachetá and to the east Guateque and Guayatá of the departmenrt of Boyacá.
Manta in the Chibcha language of the Muisca means "to your tillage" or "your farmfields". This name comes from the ancient indigenous people who inhabited the territory of the Muisca Confederation. Another Muisca name that remains is the name of the vereda Fuchatoque, located on the eastern side of the city center, headquarters of the former cacique with the same name.
The first inhabitants, indigenous Muisca, settled in pre-Columbian times, around the plateau of the current town centre, which was once a small lake. According to the founding myth in the center of the lake was an island, which was sighted in the image of San Joaquín, a name that means the actual building of the Catholic church. Before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, Manta was part of the domains and boundaries of the Muisca Confederation, but after the conquest, the indigenous inhabitants were displaced to the neighboring municipality of Tibiritá. The Spanish and mestizos were those who stayed to form the town of Manta.
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