Ricaurte | |
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 |
Area Total Km2: | 128.3 |
Area Urban Km2: | 13.5 |
Population As Of: | 2018 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 12881 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Urban: | 6857 |
Population Density Urban Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 4.2792°N -74.7728°W |
Timezone: | Colombia Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Elevation M: | 284 |
Ricaurte is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. A law issued on 14 November 1857 created the Peñalisa District and December of the same year the name was changed to Ricaurte; in 1937 it was annexed to the Girardot municipality but it recovered its condition of municipality in 1968.
The Municipality of Ricaurte has 16 Veredas, 17 within the Urban Zone. The Veredas are: