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Recetor has an area of 182 square kilometers, of which 0.5 square kilometres or 0.2 square miles are urban and 181.5 square kilometres or 70.1 square miles are rural. Recetor borders the department of Boyacá, to the east by the municipality of
Aguazul, to the south by the municipality of Tauramena
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Recetor was founded on 17 March, 1740 by Jesuit
Missionaries, and was officially made into a municipality in 1925. The first colonists arrived from the department of Boyacá, coming mostly from the municipalities of Miraflores, Berbeo, Paez, and Campohermosa.
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The main economic activities are subsistence farming, basic salt mining from wells adjacent to the
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