| Sotaquirá | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
| Mapsize: | 250px |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Colombia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Colombia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Department |
| Subdivision Name1: | Boyacá Department |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Central Boyacá Province |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Henry Santiago Suta Toca (2020-2023) |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 20 December 1582 |
| Founder: | Friar Arturo Cabeza de Vaca |
| Area Total Km2: | 288.65 |
| Area Urban Km2: | 0.10 |
| Population As Of: | 2015 |
| Population Total: | 7709 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Urban: | 716 |
| Timezone: | Colombia Standard Time |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Elevation M: | 2860 |
| Website: | Official website |
Sotaquirá is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Sotaquirá is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes with the small urban center at an altitude of 2860m (9,380feet) at 39km (24miles) from Tunja. Sotaquirá is a highly rural municipality with 90% of the people living in rural areas and about 50% more cows than inhabitants. The municipality borders Tuta in the east, Paipa in the north, Gámbita, Santander in the west and Cómbita in the south.[1]
Located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Sotaquirá before the Spanish conquest was inhabited by the Muisca organized in their loose Muisca Confederation. Sotaquirá was ruled by the zaque of Hunza, present-day department capital Tunja. Modern Sotaquirá was founded on December 20, 1582 by friar Arturo Cabeza de Vaca.[1]
In the Chibcha language of the Muisca Sotaquirá means "Town of the sovereign".[2]
Main economical activities of Sotaquirá are agriculture (barley, beans, potatoes, maize, peas and fruits as peaches, pear, prunes, apples, blackberries, strawberries, curuba, tree tomatoes and feijoa), livestock and dairy farming.[1]