Santa Rosa de Viterbo is a town and municipality

Municipio

Municipio and Município are terms used for country subdivisions. They are often translated as municipality.-Overview:...

 in Boyacá Department

Boyacá Department

Boyacá is one of the 32 Departments of Colombia, and the remnant of one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the mountains of the Eastern Cordillera to the border with Venezuela, although the western end...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

, part of the Tundama Province

Tundama Province

The Tundama Province is a subregion of the Colombian Department of Boyacá. The subsregion is formed by 9 municipalities.-Municipalities:Belén • Busbanzá • Cerinza • Corrales • Duitama • Floresta • Paipa • Santa Rosa de Viterbo • TutasáWebsite:...

 a subregion of Boyaca.

Viterbite, not a mineral but a mixture of Allophane

Allophane

Allophane is a poorly-crystalline hydrous aluminium silicate clay mineraloid. Its chemical formula is Al2O3·1.3-2·2.5-3. Since it has short-range atomic order, it is a mineraloid, rather than a mineral, and can be identified by its distinctive infrared spectrum and its X-ray diffraction pattern. It...

 and Wavellite

Wavellite

Wavellite is a phosphate mineral with formula Al323·5H2O.It normally occurs as translucent green radial or spherical clusters.-Discovery and occurrence:...

, occurs in and was named after this municipality.

Fernando Soto Aparicio, screen writer, poet, and novelist, was born in Santa Rosa de Viterbo in 1933.

The "Aerolito"

In the year 1810, a meteorite fell in Santa Rosa, and it was discovered by a farmer of the town. The mayor decided put it in the middle of the town, in front of the church. A hundred years later, the president Rafael Reyes decided to take it to Bogota. There it was divided in two big parts; one of the parts stayed in Bogota, and the other is actually in a museum in Chicago.