SOGAMOSO

city, Boyac departamento, east-central Colombia. It lies along the Chicamocha River in the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Oriental, at an elevation of 8,428 feet (2,569 m) above sea level. Once a sacred city of the pre-Columbian Chibcha Indians, Sogamoso is a commercial and manufacturing centre for the surrounding agricultural and pastoral lands. Flour and textile milling and the manufacture of shoes are the chief industries. There is a substantial amount of coal mining in the vicinity. Sogamoso is near the Pan-American Highway and on a railroad linking Bogot and Paz de Ro. Pop. (1995 est.) 95,100.