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Meaning of chía




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

chía
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In Colombia it is the name of a municipality of the Department of Cundinamarca, very close to Bogotá. In mythology she was the Muisca goddess of the moon. It is also the name of a herbaceous plant and its fruits (seeds) of high nutritional value. It is one of the plants with the highest alpha-linolenic fatty acid content ( omega 3 ). Its scientific name is Salvia hispanica and belongs to the family Lamiaceae.

  




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As already collected our Dictionary is also a herbaceous plant of the Lamiaceae family, Hispanic sage, originating in Central America, whose seeds are rich in omega 3 already used as food by pre-Columbian peoples and begins again to be planted in different places in Latin America, as in the Argentine province of Tucumán.

  



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