Guayatá
Guayatá is a town and municipality in the Eastern Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Guayatá is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at distances of from the department capital Tunja and from the national capital Bogotá. The urban centre is located at an altitude of and the altitude ranges from to . Etymology. The name Guayatá comes from Chibcha and is either a combination of "tá"; "land over there" or "farmfields" and "Guaya", a creek running through Tenza or from "Guaitá"; "domain of the female "cacique"". History. In the times before the Spanish conquest of the central  highlands of the Colombian Andes, the area around Guayatá was inhabited by the Muisca. Organized in their loose Muisca Confederation, they were an advanced agricultural civilization. Within present-day Guayatá cotton was cultivated, important for the mantle making of the Muisca. Also feathers of hunted birds were traded in and around Guayatá. At the time of the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, in Guayatá money was found that consisted of small pieces of cloth, gold or emeralds. The golden disks used as money were not decorated yet plain. Knowledge about the Muisca in the early colonial period has been provided  by friar Pedro Simón. Modern Guayatá was founded on April 6, 1821, by Andrés José Medina Narciso; months before the dissolution of the Spanish colonial period and independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia. Economy. Principal economic activity of Guayatá is agriculture, mainly maize, arracacha, bananas, yuca, beans, potatoes, coffee, pumpkins and peas. Famous product of Guayatá are the bread rolls ("mogollas").