Mariquita
San Sebastián de Mariquita is a town and municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia, about 150 km northwest of Bogotá. This town and municipality contains several important Spanish settlements that were located here due to its vicinity to the Magdalena River.
- Type: Town with 24,300 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Tolima
- Also known as: “Mariquita, Tolima” and “San Sebastian de Mariquita”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mariquita Airport.
Mariquita Airport
Aerodrome
Mariquita Airport is an airport serving Mariquita, a municipality of the Tolima Department in Colombia. The runway is adjacent to the north side of the town. The Mariquita VOR-DME is located 2.25 nautical miles west of the airport.
Mariquita
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Municipio de San Sebastián de Mariquita, Tolima Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
5.19742° or 5° 11′ 51″ north
Longitude
-74.89395° or 74° 53′ 38″ west
Population
24,300
Elevation
485 metres (1,591 feet)
IATA airport code
MQU
United Nations Location Code
CO MQU
Open location code
67Q754W4+XC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Mariquita” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماريكيتا، توليما”
- Asturian: “Mariquita (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Mariquita”
- Belarusian: “Марыкіта”
- Catalan: “Mariquita”
- Cebuano: “Mariquita”
- Chinese: “Mariquita”
- Chinese: “馬里基塔”
- Dutch: “Mariquita”
- Esperanto: “Mariquita”
- French: “Mariquita”
- French: “San Sebastián de Mariquita”
- Galician: “Mariquita, Tolima”
- Galician: “Mariquita”
- Georgian: “მარიკიტა”
- German: “Mariquita”
- Indonesian: “Mariquita, Tolima”
- Indonesian: “Mariquita”
- Irish: “Mariquita”
- Italian: “San Sebastián de Mariquita”
- Japanese: “マリキタ”
- Kotava: “San Sebastián de Mariquita”
- Malay: “Mariquita, Tolima”
- Malay: “Mariquita”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mariquita”
- Persian: “ماریکیتا”
- Polish: “Mariquita”
- Portuguese: “Mariquita”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mariquita”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mariquita, Tolima”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mariquita”
- Silesian: “Mariquita”
- Spanish: “Mariquita”
- Spanish: “San Sebastián de Mariquita”
- Swedish: “Mariquita”
- Turkish: “Mariquita (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Mariquita belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Mariquita”
- Ukrainian: “Марікіта”
- Urdu: “ماریکیتا، تولیما”
- Uzbek: “Mariquita (Tolima)”
- Uzbek: “Mariquita”
- Vietnamese: “Mariquita, Tolima”
- Vietnamese: “Mariquita”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mariquita, Tolima”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mariquita”
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