Colombia
Norte de Santander Department
Silos

Silos

Silos or Santo Domingo de Silos is a Colombian municipality and town located in the department of North Santander. It is the only municipality founded in Colombia by a German, Ambrosio Alfinger, in 1531.
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  • Type: Town with 1,300 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Norte de Santander
  • Also known as: “Santo Domingo de Silos” and “Silos, Norte de Santander”

Silos

Latitude
7.20543° or 7° 12′ 20″ north
Longitude
-72.7563° or 72° 45′ 23″ west
Population
1,300
Elevation
2,730 metres (8,957 feet)
Open location code
67V9664V+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 998996034
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3668033
Wiki­data ID
Q1655140
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Silos” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Santo Domingo de Silos (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Santo Domingo de Silos”
  • Cebuano: “Silos”
  • Chinese: “Silos”
  • Chinese: “錫洛斯”
  • Chinese: “锡洛斯”
  • Dutch: “Santo Domingo de Silos”
  • Dutch: “Silos”
  • French: “Santo Domingo de Silos”
  • Galician: “Santo Domingo de Silos, Norte de Santander”
  • Galician: “Santo Domingo de Silos”
  • Georgian: “სილოსი”
  • Irish: “Silos, Norte de Santander”
  • Italian: “Santo Domingo de Silos”
  • Kotava: “Santo Domingo de Silos (Norte de Santander)”
  • Kotava: “Santo Domingo de Silos”
  • Malay: “Silos, Norte de Santander”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Silos”
  • Persian: “سیلوس (نورته د سانتاندر)”
  • Persian: “سیلوس”
  • Polish: “Silos (Kolumbia)”
  • Polish: “Silos”
  • Portuguese: “Silos”
  • Russian: “Санто-Доминго-де-Силос (Колумбия)”
  • Russian: “Санто-Доминго-де-Силос”
  • Spanish: “Santo Domingo de Silos”
  • Swedish: “Silos”
  • Tagalog: “Silos, Norte de Santander”
  • Tagalog: “Silos”
  • Turkish: “Santo Domingo de Silos”
  • Turkish: “Silos (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Silos belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Silos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Silos, Norte de Santander”
  • “Silos (Colombia)”

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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 “Silos”. Photo: EEIM, CC BY-SA 3.0.