ang="EN-US">By Rionegro Constitution in 1863 the
administrative divisions of Boyacá suffered various modifications and according
to Law 10 of the same year adopted a new division into six departments:
Casanare, Tundama, North, West, East and Central. The Constitution of
1886, centralist, divided the country into departments, provinces and
municipalities in the provinces; 12 Law 68 of 1890 yielded to Boyacá Vasquez
territory (now Puerto Boyacá), the provinces were abolished in 1911 by
Decree Executive No. 306 and Executive Order No. 306 of 1911, several
municipalities were segregated will be the station Arauca , then the
municipalities belonging to the quartermaster formed Orinoquía Casanare ,
and its newly annexed territory in Boyacá department 1950 . In
the year of 1973 were segregated again these municipalities to form
the current territory. 13
In Boyacá were born eight presidents of the
Republic of Colombia:
José Joaquín Camacho (1814 - 1815),
born in Tunja .
José Ignacio de Márquez (1832,
1837-1841), in Ramiriquí .
Santos Acosta (1867 - 1868), in Miraflores .
Santos Gutierrez (1868 - 1870), in The
Cocuy .
Sergio Camargo (1877, Acting) at Iza .
Rafael Reyes Prieto (1904 - 1909), in Santa
Rosa de Viterbo ,
Enrique Olaya Herrera (1930 - 1934),
in Guateque ,
Gustavo Rojas
