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Villa de Leyva

Colombian municipality of the department of Boyacá
AdministrativeArea municipality_of_colombia Q1409503

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Colombia
Inception
1572[5]
Official website
www.villadeleyva-boyaca.gov.co[7]
Native label
Villa de Leyva[10]
Official name
Villa de Leyva[9]

Location

Country
Colombia[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 5.633°, -73.526°[6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Boyacá Department[2]

Population and size

Area
+128[12]
Elevation above sea level
+2000[11]
Population
+21953[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 21,953 GeoNames 16,984 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Language of work or name
Indo-European[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Villa de Leyva es La Bella Villa es Leiva es Leyva fa ویلا د لیوا ru Вилья де Лейва tr Villa de Leyva (belediye) tr Villa de Leyva belediyesi uk Вілья-де-Лейва zh 萊瓦鎮
🔖 Identifiers · 16
VIAF cluster ID
149625308
Library of Congress authority ID
n81094934
GND ID
4670812-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
20250219 VILLA DE LEYVA CUMBRE GOBERNADORES-JC00962.jpg ↗
Atlas Obscura place ID
villa-de-leyva
DANE code
15407
Freebase ID
/m/06yvqw
GNS Unique Feature ID
-590604
GeoNames ID
3676662
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3676662 GND (DNB) 3666003 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
INaturalist place ID
28535
Museum-digital place ID
84695
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007552867505171
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OpenStreetMap relation ID
1315417
Topic's main category
Category:Villa de Leyva
Who's on First ID
421179907
Yale LUX ID
place/83bcccda-271b-4354-a218-0e2c460eb360

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 2
Lake Iguaque, El Infiernito
Country 1
Colombia
Instance of 1
municipality of Colombia
Language of work or name 1
Indo-European
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Boyacá Department
Named after 1
Leivanectes
People born here 1
Antonio Ricaurte
People who died here 1
Antonio Nariño
← Location of discovery 1
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Summary

Villa de Leyva is a municipality of Colombia[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Villa de Leyva include Leivanectes[13], a monotypic fossil taxon[14].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include Leivanectes[13], a monotypic fossil taxon[14].

Related Entities

Colombia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . WikiMapia. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['avk', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'gl', 'it', 'ka',
    GND ID → 4670812-1
    Sitelink count → 29
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 12w ago · EEIM · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → 20250219 VILLA DE LEYVA CUMBRE GOBERNADORES-JC00962.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: 20250219 VILLA DE LEYVA CUMBRE GOBERNADORES-JC00962.jpg"
  3. 23w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → municipality of Colombia
    Country → Colombia
    Category for people who died here → Wikidata item
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+128'}
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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