Santana is a town and municipality in the Ricaurte Province, in the north of the Colombian department of Boyacá.

The urban centre is situated at an altitude of 1,550 metres (5,090 ft) in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

[1] Santana was called Santa Ana de Vélez until the end of the nineteenth century.

The Guane and through trade also the Muisca, made mantles and small cloths used as money from the plant.

Modern Santana, then still called Santa Ana, was founded by viceroy Antonio José Amar y Borbón on June 14, 1806.