Carmen de Carupa | |
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Municipality and town | |
Coordinates: 5°21′1″N 73°54′19″W / 5.35028°N 73.90528°W | |
Country | Colombia |
Departamento | Cundinamarca |
Province | Ubaté Province |
Founded | 20 July 1808 |
Founded by | José Joaquín Urdaneta and Doña Ventura |
Government | |
• Mayor | Alejandro Ortiz Puentes (2016-2019) |
Area | |
• Municipality and town | 228 km2 (88 sq mi) |
• Urban | 0.45 km2 (0.17 sq mi) |
Elevation | 2,600 m (8,500 ft) |
Population (2015) | |
• Municipality and town | 9,109 |
• Density | 40/km2 (100/sq mi) |
• Urban | 2,374 |
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Time zone | UTC-5 (COT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (COT) |
Website | Official website |
Carmen de Carupa is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Ubaté Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The municipality, located in the Ubaté-Chiquinquirá Valley on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense borders San Cayetano in the west, Tausa and Sutatausa in the south, Ubaté and Susa in the east and Simijaca and Buenavista and Coper (Boyacá) in the north.[2]