Tamalameque
Tamalameque is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Cesar. It was originally the site of a Chimila settlement, Thamara. Tamalameque is located on the right bank of the Magdalena River and borders Chimichagua and Pailitas in the north, Pelaya in the east, La Gloria in the south and in the west the departments of Bolívar and Magdalena.
Tamalameque
- Type: Town with 15,300 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Cesar
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Cesar Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
8.8568° or 8° 51′ 25″ north
Longitude
-73.8158° or 73° 48′ 57″ west
Population
15,300
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
67W8V54M+PM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Tamalameque” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Tamalameque (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Tamalameque”
- Cebuano: “Tamalameque”
- Chinese: “Tamalameque”
- Chinese: “塔馬拉梅克”
- Chinese: “塔马拉梅克”
- Dutch: “Tamalameque”
- Esperanto: “Tamalameque”
- French: “Tamalameque”
- Galician: “Tamalameque”
- Georgian: “ტამამალეკე”
- Irish: “Tamalameque”
- Italian: “Tamalameque”
- Kotava: “Tamalameque”
- Malay: “Tamalameque”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tamalameque”
- Persian: “تامالامکه”
- Polish: “Tamalameque”
- Portuguese: “Tamalameque”
- Russian: “Тамаламеке”
- Spanish: “Tamalameque”
- Swedish: “Tamalameque”
- Tagalog: “Tamalameque”
- Turkish: “Tamalameque (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Tamalameque belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Tamalameque”
- Ukrainian: “Тамаламеке”
- Urdu: “تامالامیکے”
- Vietnamese: “Tamalameque”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tamalameque”
- “Tamalameque”
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