Simacota
Simacota is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. In 1965, the city had briefly been invaded by more than 100 members of the anti-government Ejército de Liberación Nacional, the "National Liberation Army") and "captured the public imagination" in its first act as a new guerrilla organization.
- Town with about 10,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 900 metres (2,950 feet)
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Santander
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Palmas del Socorro
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Simacota
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Latitude
6.44351° or 6° 26′ 37″ north
Longitude
-73.33742° or 73° 20′ 15″ west
Open location code
67R8CMV7+C2
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Simacota” goes by many names.
SimacotaAsturian
Simacota (Colombia)Asturian
SimacotaCebuano
錫馬科塔Chinese
锡马科塔Chinese
SimacotaDutch
SimacotaGalician
სიმაკოტაGeorgian
SimacotaIrish
SimacotaItalian
SimacotaKotava
SimacotaMalay
SimacotaMin Nan Chinese
سیماکوتاPersian
SimacotaPolish
СимакотаRussian
SimacotaSwedish
SimacotaTagalog
SimacotaTurkish
Simacota (belediye)Turkish
Simacota belediyesiTurkish
SimacotaVietnamese
SimacotaWaray (Philippines)
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