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Lake Fúquene, the Glossary

Lake Fúquene is a heart-shaped lake located in the Ubaté-Chiquinquirá Valley, part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, in the north of Cundinamarca, Colombia, at the border with Boyacá.^[1]

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Environmental impact of agriculture
Lakes of Colombia
Lakes of the Andes
Muisca mythology and religion
Sacred lakes of the Americas
Tourist attractions in Cundinamarca Department

Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Alnus jorullensis

Alnus jorullensis, commonly known as Mexican alder, is an evergreen or semi-evergreen alder, native to eastern and southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.

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Altiplano Cundiboyacense

The Altiplano Cundiboyacense is a high plateau located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá.

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American coot

The American coot (Fulica americana), also known as a mud hen or pouldeau, is a bird of the family Rallidae.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Biodiversity of Colombia

The biodiversity of Colombia is the variety of indigenous organisms in the country with the second-highest biodiversity in the world.

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Boyacá Department

Boyacá is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".

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Chibcha language

Chibcha, Mosca, Muisca, Muysca (*/ˈmɨska/ *), or Muysca de Bogotá is a language spoken by the Muisca people of the Muisca Confederation, one of the many indigenous cultures of the Americas.

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Chiquinquirá

Chiquinquirá is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors or conquistadores (lit 'conquerors') was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonialists of the early modern period.

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Cundinamarca Department

Department of Cundinamarca (Departamento de Cundinamarca) is one of the departments of Colombia.

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Dairy

A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold.

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El Espectador

El Espectador ("The Spectator") is a newspaper of national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on March 22, 1887, in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá.

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El Tiempo (Colombia)

El Tiempo ("Time" or "The Times") is a nationally distributed broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia launched on January 30, 1911.

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Fúquene

Fúquene is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca.

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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (1509 – 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia.

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Intermontane

Intermontane is a physiographic adjective formed from the prefix "inter-" (signifying among, between, amid, during, within, mutual, reciprocal) and the adjective "montane" (inhabiting, or growing in mountainous regions, especially cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline).

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Javier Ocampo López

Javier Ocampo López (born 19 June 1939) is a Colombian historian, writer, folklorist and professor. Lake Fúquene and Javier Ocampo López are Muisca mythology and religion.

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Lake Guatavita

Lake Guatavita (Spanish: Laguna Guatavita) is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in the municipality of Sesquilé in the Almeidas Province, Cundinamarca department of Colombia, northeast of Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. Lake Fúquene and Lake Guatavita are Altiplano Cundiboyacense, lakes of Colombia, lakes of the Andes, Muisca mythology and religion, Sacred lakes of the Americas and Tourist attractions in Cundinamarca Department.

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Lake Iguaque

Lake Iguaque is a lake located in the Boyacá Department of Colombia. Lake Fúquene and lake Iguaque are Altiplano Cundiboyacense, lakes of Colombia, lakes of the Andes, Muisca mythology and religion and Sacred lakes of the Americas.

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Lake Suesca

Lake Suesca is a natural water body situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, belonging to the municipalities of Suesca and Cucunubá in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. Lake Fúquene and Lake Suesca are Altiplano Cundiboyacense, lakes of Colombia, lakes of the Andes, Muisca mythology and religion, Sacred lakes of the Americas and Tourist attractions in Cundinamarca Department.

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Lake Tota

Lake Tota (Lago de Tota) is the largest lake in Colombia, located in the east of Boyacá department, inside the Sugamuxi Province, it is the source of the Upia River which flows into the Orinoco River basin. Lake Fúquene and lake Tota are Altiplano Cundiboyacense, lakes of Colombia, Muisca mythology and religion and Sacred lakes of the Americas.

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Least bittern

The least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis) is a small heron, the smallest member of the family Ardeidae found in the Americas.

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Muisca

The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest.

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Muisca Confederation

The Muisca Confederation was a loose confederation of different Muisca rulers (zaques, zipas, iraca, and tundama) in the central Andean highlands of what is today Colombia before the Spanish conquest of northern South America. Lake Fúquene and Muisca Confederation are Altiplano Cundiboyacense.

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Muisca religion

Muisca religion describes the religion of the Muisca who inhabited the central highlands of the Colombian Andes before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca. Lake Fúquene and Muisca religion are Muisca mythology and religion.

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Muisca rulers

When the Spanish arrived in the central Colombian highlands, the region was organized into the Muisca Confederation, which had two rulers; the Zipa was the ruler of the southern part and based in Muyquytá.

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Schoenoplectus californicus

Schoeneoplectus californicus is a species of sedge known by the common names California bulrush, southern bulrush and giant bulrush.

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Siecha Lakes

The Siecha Lakes are three glacial lakes located in the Chingaza Natural National Park in Cundinamarca, Colombia. Lake Fúquene and Siecha Lakes are Altiplano Cundiboyacense, lakes of Colombia, Sacred lakes of the Americas and Tourist attractions in Cundinamarca Department.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Fúquene

Lake Fúquene, the Glossary

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See also

Environmental impact of agriculture

Lakes of Colombia

Lakes of the Andes

Muisca mythology and religion

Sacred lakes of the Americas

Tourist attractions in Cundinamarca Department

References