Chipatá is a town and municipality in the Vélez Province, part of the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.

The municipality borders Vélez in the south and west, La Paz in the north, San Benito, Güepsa and Barbosa in the east.

Modern Chipatá was the first settlement founded by conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and his brother, on March 8, 1537, during his expedition of conquest.

[1] After the local elections of October 2015, where Belisario Romero Chávez gained the position of mayor with a difference of 44 votes, supporters of his contestant Emilse Santamaría Castillo destroyed a school and molested the former mayor Argemiro Angulo.

Among the agricultural products cultivated are maize, coffee, blackberries, pitaya, aloe, and stevia.