Turmequé is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Márquez Province.

[1] Turmequé was an important center for the Muisca who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense before the arrival of the Spanish conquest led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, who founded modern Turmequé on July 20, 1537 in his search for El Dorado.

Turmequé was part of the Muisca Confederation led by the zaque based in Hunza, present-day department capital Tunja.

In the village center a statue honouring the Muisca sports god Chaquén still remembers this.

[1] The town center is for the most part focused on commerce and services while the rural area has agriculture; potatoes, beans, maize, onions, peas, wheat, barley and fruits such as prunes, blackberries, pears and apples and the typical Colombian fruits curuba and feijoa.