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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Julian Grafico, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Palmas del Socorro and Socorro.
Palmas del Socorro
Town
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Palmas Socorro is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Palmas del Socorro is situated 7 km southeast of Simacota.
Socorro
Town
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Socorro is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. It was founded in 1681 by José de Archila and José Díaz Sarmiento. Socorro is situated 9 km east of Simacota.
Simacota
- Type: Town with 2,160 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Santander
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Simacota, Santander Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
6.44351° or 6° 26′ 37″ northLongitude
-73.33742° or 73° 20′ 15″ westPopulation
2,160Elevation
1,057 metres (3,468 feet)Open location code
67R8CMV7+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 703169220OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3668023Wikidata ID
Q1578171
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Simacota” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Simacota (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Simacota”
- Cebuano: “Simacota”
- Chinese: “Simacota”
- Chinese: “錫馬科塔”
- Chinese: “锡马科塔”
- Dutch: “Simacota”
- French: “Simacota”
- Galician: “Simacota”
- Georgian: “სიმაკოტა”
- German: “Simacota”
- Irish: “Simacota”
- Italian: “Simacota”
- Kotava: “Simacota”
- Malay: “Simacota”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Simacota”
- Persian: “سیماکوتا”
- Polish: “Simacota”
- Russian: “Симакота”
- Spanish: “Simacota”
- Swedish: “Simacota”
- Tagalog: “Simacota”
- Turkish: “Simacota (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Simacota belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Simacota”
- Vietnamese: “Simacota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Simacota”
- “Simacota”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Simacota”. Photo: Julian Grafico, CC BY-SA 4.0.