Tausa

Tausa
Municipality and town
Church of Tausa
Flag Seal
Location of the municipality and town inside Cundinamarca Department of Colombia
Tausa Location in Colombia
Coordinates: 5°11′47″N 73°53′15″W / 5.19639°N 73.88750°W / 5.19639; -73.88750
Country	Colombia
Department	Cundinamarca
Province	Ubaté Province
Founded	2 August 1600
Government
• Mayor	Jaime Alexander Rodríguez Ballen (2016-2019)
Area
• Municipality and town	204 km2 (79 sq mi)
• Urban	2 km2 (0.8 sq mi)
Elevation	2,931 m (9,616 ft)
Population  (2015)
• Municipality and town	8,801
• Density	43/km2 (110/sq mi)
• Urban	1,058
Time zone	UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)
Website	Official website

Tausa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtawsa]) is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Ubaté Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Tausa is and was an important town on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense due to its salt mine. It was the third most prolific salt deposit for the original inhabitants of the area; the Muisca. Tausa's urban centre is located at an elevation of 2,950 metres (9,680 ft) (other parts of the municipality reach elevations of 3,700 metres (12,100 ft)) and a distance of 65 kilometres (40 mi) from the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders San Cayetano, Carmen de Carupa and Sutatausa in the north, Pacho in the west, Sutatausa, Cucunubá and Suesca in the east and in the south with Nemocón and Cogua.^[1]