Boyacá, a department of Colombia, touching Venezuela. In the west it is mountainous; in the east it has vast prairies, and is watered by the Meta and its tributaries. The Muzo emerald mine is the richest in the world, and the department is rich in salt springs, coal, iron, plumbago, and copper ore. Area, 33,351 square miles; pop. 483,874. Capital, Tunja, with 6000 inhabitants.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 376
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