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unusual facts about Boyacá


Cuchuco

Cuchuco is a soup made with corn, barley or wheat and mashed beans to make Colombian cuisine soup, especially altiplano of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments of Colombia.


Callawayasaurus

The fist Callawayasaurus remains were found in the Paja Formation near Leiva, Boyaca Colombia.

Changua

Changua (milk soup with eggs) is a typical hearty breakfast soup of the central Andes region of Colombia, in particular in the Boyacá and Cundinamarca area, including the capital, Bogotá.

Clímaco Calderón

Calderón started his political ascend in Boyacá where he was judge in the Circuit court of Tunja, deputy in the Legislative Assembly, and Director of Education during the administration of José Eusebio Otálora.

Germán Vargas Lleras

Germán Vargas Lleras began his political career while in college at 19 years of age in a successful campaign that got him elected as councilman of Boyacá, Cundinamarca in 1981 under the flags of the New Liberalism, a dissident political movement founded by the then young Senator Luis Carlos Galán.

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Miraflores Palace

Boyacá is also decorated by a painting of muralist Gabriel Bracho, who represents the faces of Bolívar, Francisco de Paula Santander and José Antonio Anzoátegui, heroes of Boyacá.

Oicatá

By Act of June 15, 1857, Boyacá gained its inception as a sovereign state consisting of the provinces of Tunja, Tundama, Casanare, the cantons of Chiquinquirá and Velez; as Act of October 31 of that year created four departments, 42 districts Tunja, Tundama 46, Casanare and East 21 6.


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