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.Simacota
- Also known as: “锡马科塔”
- Location: Santander Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
6.5241° or 6° 31′ 27″ northLongitude
-73.6693° or 73° 40′ 9″ westPopulation
8,910Elevation
612 metres (2,008 feet)Open location code
67R8G8FJ+J7GeoNames ID
3668024
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Simacota” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Simacota”
- Cebuano: “Simacota”
- Chinese: “錫馬科塔”
- 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: “Municipio de Simacota”
- Swedish: “Simacota”
- Tagalog: “Simacota”
- Turkish: “Simacota”
- Vietnamese: “Simacota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Simacota”
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