Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá
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| Location of the municipality and town of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá in the Boyacá Department of Colombia. Location of the municipality and town of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá in the Boyacá Department of Colombia. |
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| Country |  Colombia |
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| Department | Boyacá Department | ||
| Province | Tundama Province | ||
| Time zone | Colombia Standard Time (UTC-5) | ||
Santa Rosa de Viterbo is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the Tundama Province a subregion of Boyaca.
Viterbite, not a mineral but a mixture of Allophane and Wavellite, occurs in and was named after this municipality.
Fernando Soto Aparicio, screen writer, poet, and novelist, was born in Santa Rosa de Viterbo in 1933.
History
Santa Rosa de Viterbo was founded by the Spanish in 1689. Three priests petitioned the Archbishop of Santa Fe for resources to found the parish of Santa Rosa de Viterbo. A mayor was appointed in 1690; the first being José de los Reyes.
The "Aerolito"
In the year 1810, a meteorite fell in Santa Rosa, and it was discovered by a farmer of the town. The mayor decided put it in the middle of the town, in front of the church. A hundred years later, the president Rafael Reyes decided to take it to Bogota. There it was divided in two big parts; one of the parts stayed in Bogota, and the other is actually in a museum in Chicago.
References
- Ramirez, J. Emilio (1949) "The meteorites of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Colombia" Popular Astronomy, Vol. 57, p. 29.
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