Zipaquirá
Zipaquirá is a cute colonial town of some 70,000 people about an hour north of Bogotá in the Cundinamarca province. It is Colombia's salt mining capital and is famous for its Salt Cathedral, constructed almost entirely of salt within a defunct mine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá.
Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres underground in a halite mountain near the city of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia. Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is situated 3½ km east of Zipaquirá.
Zipaquirá
- Also known as: “Zipaquira”
- Location: Cundinamarca, Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
5.0263° or 5° 1′ 35″ northLongitude
-74.0421° or 74° 2′ 31″ westPopulation
102,000Elevation
2,853 metres (9,360 feet)Open location code
67Q72XG5+G5GeoNames ID
3665543
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Zipaquirá”. Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.