Villa de Leyva is a colonial town 40 km west of Tunja with a population of 4,000. It is one of the finest villages of Colombia, declared National Monument to preserve its architecture. It was founded in 1572 by Hernán Suarez de Villalobos and named after the first president of the New Kingdom of Granada, Andrés Díaz Venero de Leyva.
It is located in a high valley at 2,144 m of altitude where fossils from the Mesozoic Era (especially the Cretaceous Epoch) abound.
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