Tasco | |
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: | Valderrama Province |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Juan Yesid Cusba Tibaduiza (2020-2023) |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 15 October 1577 |
Area Total Km2: | 167 |
Area Urban Km2: | 0.3 |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 6361 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 1905 |
Timezone: | Colombia Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Elevation M: | 2530 |
Website: | Official website |
Tasco is a town and municipality in the Valderrama Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Tasco is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at altitudes ranging from 2400m (7,900feet) to 3800m (12,500feet). The Chicamocha River flows through the municipality which borders Socha in the north, Corrales and Gámeza in the south, Socotá in the east and Betéitiva and Paz de Río in the west. The urban centre is located at an altitude of 2530m (8,300feet) at 115km (71miles) from the department capital Tunja.[1]
Tasco in the Chibcha language of the Muisca means "Enclosure or mansion of the sovereign".[2]
The area of Tasco was inhabited by the Boche and Pirgua tribes, before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca.[3] Modern Tasco was founded on October 15, 1577.[1] Mummies have been encountered in Tasco.[4]
Main economical activities of Tasco are agriculture and livestock farming. Among the agricultural products are potatoes, Ullucus tuberosus, turnips, maize, beans, barley, peas and chick peas. Fruits cultivated in Tasco are peaches, pears, prunes, apples and the Colombian fruit curuba.[1]
Fossil remains of the Rosidae Berhamniphyllum and Archaeopaliurus boyacensis have been found in the Maastrichtian Guaduas Formation in Tasco and described in 2010.[5]