National Carranguera Music Festival

Founded in 2008 by Eduardo Villareal with support from carranga pioneer Jorge Velosa Ruiz, Tinjaca's Convite Cuna Carranguera is Boyaca's dedicated showcase for carranga, the peasant guitar-and-tiple music popularised nationally from the 1970s. Centred on the municipal plaza, it mixes traditional repertoire with newer experimental variations across performances by groups from the roughly 400-strong national carranguero scene.

Carranga, the guitar-and-tiple-driven peasant popular music of Boyaca department, had no dedicated national showcase until 2008, when Eduardo Villareal, a Bogota native drawn to the Boyaca countryside, organised the first Convite Cuna Carranguera in the small municipality of Tinjaca with support from Jorge Velosa Ruiz, the musician most responsible for carranga's national popularity from the 1970s onward.