Nemocón
Nemocón is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Nemocón, famous for its salt mine, was an important village in the Muisca Confederation, the country in the central Colombian Andes before the arrival of the Spanish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,470 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Cundinamarca
- Also known as: “Nemocon”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gachancipá and Sesquilé.
Gachancipá
Town
Gachancipá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre is located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at 42 kilometres from the capital Bogotá. Gachancipá is situated 8 km south of Nemocón.
Sesquilé
Town
Photo: DJ-NELZON, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sesquilé is a town and municipality in Almeidas Province in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. Sesquilé in the Chibcha language of the Muisca means "hot water". Sesquilé is situated 9 km east of Nemocón.
Suesca
Town
Photo: Marcin Gwizdon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Suesca is a town and municipality in the Almeidas Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 59 kilometres north of the capital Bogotá. Suesca is situated 10 km northeast of Nemocón.
Nemocón
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Nemocón, Cundinamarca, Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
5.06737° or 5° 4′ 3″ northLongitude
-73.87702° or 73° 52′ 37″ westPopulation
5,470Elevation
2,581 metres (8,468 feet)Open location code
67Q8348F+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 703168825OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3673887Wikidata ID
Q1574741
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Nemocón” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Nemocón (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Nemocón”
- Cebuano: “Nemocón”
- Chinese: “Nemocón”
- Chinese: “內莫孔”
- Chinese: “内莫孔”
- Dutch: “Nemocon”
- Dutch: “Nemocón”
- French: “Nemocon”
- French: “Nemocón”
- Galician: “Nemocón”
- Georgian: “ნემოკონი”
- Hebrew: “נמוקון”
- Irish: “Nemocón”
- Italian: “Nemocon”
- Italian: “Nemocón”
- Japanese: “ネモコン”
- Kotava: “Nemocón”
- Malay: “Nemocón”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nemocón”
- Persian: “نموکون”
- Polish: “Nemocón”
- Spanish: “Nemocon”
- Spanish: “Nemocón”
- Swedish: “Nemocón”
- Tagalog: “Nemocón”
- Turkish: “Nemocon (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Nemocón (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Nemocon belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Nemocón belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Nemocón”
- Uzbek: “Nemocón”
- Vietnamese: “Nemocón”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nemocón”
- “Nemocón”
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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 “Nemocón”. Photo: Petruss, CC BY-SA 3.0.