sentences:  The name Motavita comes from the Chibcha language and means "washing place to prepare for growing crops", indicating a ceremonial use.Motavita is bordered to the north by Arcabuco and Cómbita, to the east and south by Tunja, and to the west by Sora and Chíquiza.In the time before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, Motavita was inhabited by the Muisca, organised in their loose Muisca Confederation.