Guayabal de Síquima

Location of the town and municipality of Guayabal de Siquima in Cundinamarca Department.

Guayabal de Síquima also known as "The Golden Gate of the Central Magdalena" is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca located in the Central Magdalena Province 69 km from Bogotá.

The principal town is located at 4°52’52” North and 74°28’10” West, in zone called Western Zone of the Eastern Mountains, which is characterized by sinuous mountains.

Guayabal de Síquima is bordered on the northeast by the municipality of Villeta, on the west by the municipality of Bituima, on the north by Albán and on the south by Anolaima.

History

Guayabal de Síquima was founded in 1721 with the assignation of the Father Luis Calvo Vasallo as parish priest of the town. He began the construction of 22 houses of Bareque and 5 of mud wall stepped around the Principal Park.

In the year of 1739 Guayabal de Síquima was divided into four big zones Chiniata, named in honour of an ancient Indian leader or Cacique, El Trigo (the wheat), being this region where this grain was cultivated for the first time; Resguardo, in memory of which the natives called Muizane, meaning refuge or defense, and Manoa in memory of an ancient "cacique" of the region.

v t e Provinces and Municipalities in Cundinamarca department Almeidas Province Chocontá Machetá Manta Sesquilé Suesca Tibiritá Villapinzón Upper Magdalena Province Agua de Dios Girardot Guataqui Jerusalen Nariño Nilo Ricaurte Tocaima Lower Magdalena Province Caparrapí Guaduas Puerto Salgar Gualivá Province Albán La Peña La Vega Nimaima Nocaima Quebradanegra San Francisco Sasaima Supatá Útica Vergara Villeta Guavio Province Gachala Gacheta Gama Guasca Guatavita Junín La Calera Ubalá Central Magdalena Province Beltrán Bituima Chaguani Guayabal de Síquima Puli San Juan Rioseco Viani Medina Province Medina Paratebueno Eastern Province Caqueza Chipaque Choachí Fomeque Fosca Guayabetal Gutierrez Quetame Ubaque Une Rionegro Province El Peñón La Palma Pacho Paime San Cayetano Topaipí Villagómez Yacopí Central Savanna Province Cajicá Chía Cogua Cota Gachancipá Nemocón Sopó Tabio Tenjo Tocancipá Zipaquirá Western Savanna Province Bojacá El Rosal Facatativá Funza Madrid Mosquera Subachoque Zipacón Soacha Province Sibaté Soacha Sumapaz Province Arbeláez Cabrera Fusagasugá Granada Pandi Pasca San Bernardo Silvania Tibacuy Venecia Tequendama Province Anapoima Anolaima Apulo Cachipay El Colegio La Mesa Quipile San Antonio del Tequendama Tena Viotá Ubaté Province Carmen de Carupa Cucunubá Fúquene Guachetá Lenguazaque Simijacá Susa Sutatausa Tausa Ubaté Metropolitan Area of Bogotá Bogotá, Capital District See also: List of municipalities in Cundinamarca

Coordinates: 4°53′N 74°28′W / 4.883°N 74.467°W / 4.883; -74.467