Villapinzón is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Almeidas Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca.
The urban centre is situated at an elevation of 2,715 metres (8,907 ft) on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, at a distance of 80 kilometres (50 mi) from the capital Bogotá.
Villapinzón borders Ventaquemada (Boyacá) and Lenguazaque in the north, Chocontá, Tibiritá and La Capilla in the south, Chocontá and Lenguazaque in the west and Ventaquemada, Turmequé and Úmbita in the east.
[1] The history of Villapinzón is relatively young; historian Ramón Correa studied the pre-Colombian history of the area and did not find evidence Villapinzón was populated before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca.
Villapinzón was founded on October 14, 1776 by Francisco de Vargas Figueroa.