Sibaté | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Pushpin Map: | Colombia |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Colombia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Colombia |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Soacha Province |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Luis Roberto Gonzalez Peñaloza (2016–2019) |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 24 November 1967 |
Area Total Km2: | 122.1 |
Area Urban Km2: | 1.91 |
Population As Of: | 2018 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 33491 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 23644 |
Population Density Urban Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 4.4908°N -74.2594°W |
Timezone: | Colombia Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Elevation M: | 2700 |
Website: | Official website |
Sibaté (pronounced as /es/) is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Soacha Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Sibaté is located on the Bogotá savanna with the urban centre at an altitude of 2700m (8,900feet) and a distance of 27km (17miles) from the capital Bogotá. It forms part of the metropolitan area of the capital. Sibaté borders Soacha in the north, Pasca and Fusagasugá in the south, Soacha in the east and Silvania and Granada in the west.[2]
Sibaté means in Chibcha "Leak of the lake", according to scholar Miguel Triana.[2]
In the times before the Spanish conquest, the area of Sibaté was inhabited by the Muisca. The Bogotá savanna was ruled by the zipa based in Bacatá.
Modern Sibaté was founded on November 24, 1967.[2]
Main economical activities of Sibaté are agriculture (potatoes, peas and strawberries) and livestock farming.[2]