Nemocón
Nemocón | |
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Street in Nemocón | |
Location of the town and municipality of Nemocón in the Cundinamarca Department | |
| Coordinates: 5°3′19″N 74°1′17″W / 5.05528°N 74.02139°W | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Departamento | Cundinamarca |
| Province | Central Savanna Province |
| Founded | 26 July 1600 |
| Founded by | Luis Henríquez |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Julián Alfredo Rodríguez Montaño (2020-2023) |
| Area | |
• City | 98.1 km2 (37.9 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 0.61 km2 (0.24 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,585 m (8,481 ft) |
| Population (2015) | |
• City | 13,488 |
| • Density | 140/km2 (360/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 5,684 |
| Demonym | Nemoconense |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time) |
| Area code | +1 |
| Website | Official website |
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Nemocón is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Nemocón, famous for its salt mine, was an important village in the Muisca Confederation, the country in the central Colombian Andes before the arrival of the Spanish. The municipality is situated in the northern part of the Bogotá savanna, part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with its urban centre at an altitude of 2,585 metres (8,481 ft) and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from the capital Bogotá. Nemocón is the northeasternmost municipality of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá and the Bogotá River originates close to Nemocón. The median temperature of Nemocón is 12.8 °C. The municipality borders Tausa in the north, Zipaquirá and Gachancipá in the south, Suesca in the east, and Cogua in the west.