sentences:  The urban centre is located at an altitude of and the altitude ranges from to .The name Guayatá comes from Chibcha and is either a combination of "tá"; "land over there" or "farmfields" and "Guaya", a creek running through Tenza or from "Guaitá"; "domain of the female "cacique"".In the times before the Spanish conquest of the central highlands of the Colombian Andes, the area around Guayatá was inhabited by the Muisca.