Salgar
Salgar is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia. With a population of 15,782, as per the 2018 census, Salgar is part of the sub-region of Southwestern Antioquia. The town was hit by a massive landslide in 2015.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Salgar
- Type: Town with 15,800 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Antioquia
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Salgar, Antioquia, Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
5.96314° or 5° 57′ 47″ northLongitude
-75.97914° or 75° 58′ 45″ westPopulation
15,800Elevation
1,209 metres (3,967 feet)Open location code
67Q6X27C+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 703173606OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3670350Wikidata ID
Q1525126
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Salgar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سالغار”
- Asturian: “Salgar (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Salgar”
- Basque: “Salgar”
- Cebuano: “Salgar”
- Chinese: “Salgar”
- Chinese: “萨尔加”
- Chinese: “薩爾加”
- Dutch: “Salgar”
- French: “Salgar”
- Galician: “Salgar”
- Georgian: “სალგარი”
- Iloko: “Salgar”
- Interlingue: “Salgar”
- Irish: “Salgar”
- Italian: “Salgar”
- Kotava: “Salgar”
- Malay: “Salgar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Salgar”
- Persian: “سالگار”
- Polish: “Salgar”
- Portuguese: “Salgar”
- Romanian: “Salgar”
- Russian: “Сальгар”
- Spanish: “Salgar”
- Swedish: “Salgar”
- Tagalog: “Salgar”
- Turkish: “Salgar (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Salgar belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Salgar”
- Ukrainian: “Салгар”
- Ukrainian: “Салґар”
- Uzbek: “Salgar”
- Vietnamese: “Salgar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salgar”
- “Salgar”
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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 “Salgar”. Photo: Roserocuesta, CC BY-SA 4.0.