San Rafael
San Rafael is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. Part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. The town was founded in 1864 by a group of miners who were attracted to the abundance of gold in the region.Photo: Jacques Di Saint, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 15,700 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Antioquia
- Also known as: “San Rafael, Antioquia”
San Rafael
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: San Rafael, Antioquia, Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
6.29549° or 6° 17′ 44″ northLongitude
-75.02801° or 75° 1′ 41″ westPopulation
15,700Elevation
994 metres (3,261 feet)Open location code
67R67XWC+5QOpenStreetMap ID
node 419122921OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3669056Wikidata ID
Q1526004
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“San Rafael” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “San Rafael (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “San Rafael”
- Cebuano: “San Rafael”
- Chinese: “San Rafael”
- Chinese: “圣拉斐尔”
- Chinese: “聖拉斐爾”
- Dutch: “San Rafael”
- French: “San Rafael”
- Galician: “San Rafael, Antioquia”
- Georgian: “სან-რაფაელი”
- Iloko: “San Rafael, Antioquia”
- Iloko: “San Rafael”
- Interlingue: “San Rafael”
- Irish: “San Rafael”
- Italian: “San Rafael”
- Kotava: “San Rafael”
- Malay: “San Rafael, Antioquia”
- Malay: “San Rafael”
- Min Nan Chinese: “San Rafael”
- Persian: “سن رافائل (انتیوکیا)”
- Persian: “سن رافائل”
- Polish: “San Rafael (Kolumbia)”
- Polish: “San Rafael”
- Portuguese: “San Rafael”
- Romanian: “San Rafael, Antioquia”
- Romanian: “San Rafael”
- Russian: “Сан-Рафаэль”
- Scots: “San Rafael, Antioquia”
- Scots: “San Rafael”
- Spanish: “San Rafael”
- Swedish: “San Rafael, Colombia”
- Swedish: “San Rafael”
- Tagalog: “San Rafael, Antioquia”
- Tagalog: “San Rafael”
- Turkish: “San Rafael (belediye)”
- Turkish: “San Rafael belediyesi”
- Turkish: “San Rafael”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Рафаель (Колумбія)”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Рафаель”
- Vietnamese: “San Rafael”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Rafael, Antioquia”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Rafael”
- “San Rafael”
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