Muzo
Muzo is a town and municipality in the Western Boyacá Province, part of the department of Boyacá, Colombia. It is widely known as the world capital of emeralds for the mines containing the world's highest quality gems of this type.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quípama.
Quípama
Town
Photo: John Fredy Moreno, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quípama is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province. It is home of one of the largest emerald mines in the world. Quípama is situated 9 km west of Muzo.
Muzo
- Type: Town with 7,980 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Boyacá
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Muzo, Boyacá, Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
5.53213° or 5° 31′ 56″ northLongitude
-74.10278° or 74° 6′ 10″ westPopulation
7,980Elevation
770 metres (2,526 feet)Open location code
67Q7GVJW+VVOpenStreetMap ID
node 703168839OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3674121Wikidata ID
Q1431785
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Muzo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Muzo (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Muzo”
- Cebuano: “Muzo”
- Chinese: “Muzo”
- Chinese: “穆索”
- Dutch: “Muzo”
- French: “Muzo”
- Galician: “Muzo”
- Georgian: “მუსო”
- German: “Muzo”
- Irish: “Muzo”
- Italian: “Muzo”
- Kotava: “Muzo”
- Malay: “Muzo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Muzo”
- Persian: “موزو”
- Polish: “Muzo”
- Portuguese: “Muzo”
- Russian: “Мусо”
- Spanish: “Muzo”
- Swedish: “Muzo”
- Tagalog: “Muzo”
- Turkish: “Muzo (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Muzo belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Muzo”
- Ukrainian: “Мусо”
- Uzbek: “Muzo”
- Vietnamese: “Muzo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Muzo”
- “Muzo”
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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 “Muzo”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.