Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá

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Santa Rosa de Viterbo is a municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia.

Viterbite, not a mineral but a mixture of Allophane and Wavellite, occurs in and was named after this municipality.

Fernando Soto Aparicio, screen writer, poet, and novelist, was born in Santa Rosa de Viterbo in 1933.

[edit] References

  • Ramirez, J. Emilio (1949) "The meteorites of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Colombia" Popular Astronomy, Vol. 57, p.29.