South America
Colombia

Magdalena River

The Magdalena River is the main river of , flowing northward about 1,528 kilometres through the western half of the country. It takes its name from the biblical figure Mary Magdalene.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bocas de Ceniza.

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is the mouth of the Magdalena River in the . It owes its name to the dusky color ocean waters take to receive the river. At present, the river flows into the sea through an artificial canal built in the 1930s.

Magdalena River

Latitude
11.10497° or 11° 6′ 18″ north
Longitude
-74.85153° or 74° 51′ 6″ west
Open location code
7737443X+X9
Geo­Names ID
3675679
Wiki­data ID
Q191829
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Magdalena River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Río Magdalena”
  • Arabic: “نهر ماجدالينا”
  • Arabic: “نهر مجدلينا”
  • Armenian: “Մագդալենա”
  • Asturian: “ríu Magdalena”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Magdalena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maqdalena çayı”
  • Bashkir: “Магдалена”
  • Basque: “Magdalena ibaia”
  • Basque: “Magdalena”
  • Belarusian: “Магдалена”
  • Belarusian: “Рака Магдалена”
  • Bengali: “মাগদালেনা নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “मैग्डलीन नदी”
  • Breton: “Magdalena”
  • Breton: “Río Magdalena”
  • Bulgarian: “Магдалена”
  • Catalan: “riu Magdalena”
  • Catalan: “Riu Magdalena”
  • Cebuano: “Río Magdalena”
  • Chinese: “馬德蓮娜河”
  • Chinese: “馬格達萊納河”
  • Chinese: “马格达莱纳河”
  • Chuvash: “Магдалена”
  • Croatian: “Magdalena”
  • Czech: “Magdalena”
  • Danish: “Magdalenafloden”
  • Dutch: “Magdalena”
  • Dutch: “Río Magdalena (vattendrag i Colombia, lat 11,10, long -74,85)”
  • Dutch: “Rio Magdalena”
  • Dutch: “Río Magdalena”
  • Esperanto: “Magdalena”
  • Esperanto: “Magdaleno”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Magdalena”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Magdaleno”
  • Estonian: “Magdalena jõgi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Magdalena Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Magdalena”
  • French: “Magdalena”
  • French: “río Magdalena”
  • French: “Río Magdalena”
  • Galician: “Río Magdalena”
  • Georgian: “მაგდალენა”
  • German: “Magdalenenstrom”
  • German: “Rio Magdalena”
  • German: “Río Magdalena”
  • Greek: “Μαγδαλένα”
  • Greek: “Μαγκνταλένα”
  • Greek: “Ποταμός Μαγδαλένα”
  • Hebrew: “מגדלנה”
  • Hebrew: “נהר מגדלנה”
  • Hindi: “मग्देलेना नदी”
  • Hindi: “मैग्डेलेना नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Magdalena”
  • Ido: “Fluvio Magdalena”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Magdalena”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Magdalena”
  • Italian: “Magdalena”
  • Italian: “Rio Magdalena”
  • Japanese: “マグダレーナ川”
  • Japanese: “マグダレナ川”
  • Kirghiz: “Магдалена”
  • Korean: “마그달레나강”
  • Korean: “막달레나 강”
  • Kotava: “Magdalena (kuksa)”
  • Kotava: “Magdalena”
  • Latin: “Flumen Magdalenae”
  • Latvian: “Magdalena”
  • Latvian: “Magdalēna”
  • Lithuanian: “Magdalena”
  • Madurese: “Songay Magdalèna”
  • Mingrelian: “მაგდალენა (წყარმალუ)”
  • Mingrelian: “მაგდალენა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Magdalena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Magdalenaelva”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rio Magdalena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Río Magdalena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Magdalenaelva”
  • Norwegian: “Magdalena”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Magdalena”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Magdalena”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Riu Magdalena”
  • Ossetian: “Магдаленæ (цæугæдон)”
  • Ossetian: “Магдаленæ”
  • Persian: “رود ماگدالنا”
  • Polish: “Magdalena”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Magdalena”
  • Quechua: “Chiliti mayu”
  • Quechua: “Magdalena mayu”
  • Quechua: “Río Chilete”
  • Quechua: “Río Magdalena”
  • Romanian: “Râul Magdalena”
  • Romanian: “Río Magdalena”
  • Russian: “Магдалена”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Abhainn Mhagdalena”
  • Serbian: “Magdalena”
  • Serbian: “Магдалена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Magdalena”
  • Slovak: “Magdalena”
  • Slovak: “Magdaléna”
  • Slovenian: “Magdalena”
  • Slovenian: “reka Magdalena”
  • Slovenian: “Río Magdalena”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماقدالنا چایی”
  • Spanish: “Magdalena”
  • Spanish: “Rio Grande de la Magdalena”
  • Spanish: “Río Grande de la Magdalena”
  • Spanish: “Rio Magdalena”
  • Spanish: “Río Magdalena”
  • Spanish: “Rio Wuakaka ya”
  • Spanish: “Río Wuakaka ya”
  • Spanish: “Rio Wuakaka-ya”
  • Spanish: “Río Wuakaka-ya”
  • Spanish: “Wuakaka ya”
  • Spanish: “Wuakaka-ya”
  • Swahili: “Mto Magdalena”
  • Swedish: “Magdalenafloden”
  • Swedish: “Río Magdalena”
  • Tamil: “மகதலேனா ஆறு”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำมักดาเลนา”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำแมคดาเลน่า”
  • Turkish: “Magdalena Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Rio Grande de la Magdalena”
  • Turkish: “Río Magdalena”
  • Ukrainian: “Магдалена”
  • Ukrainian: “Маґдалена”
  • Urdu: “دریائے مگدالینا”
  • Uzbek: “Magdalena”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Magdalena”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Magdalena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Magdalena”
  • Welsh: “Afon Magdalena”
  • Western Frisian: “Magdalena”
  • Wu Chinese: “马格达莱纳河”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬德蓮娜河”
  • “मैग्डलीन नदी”

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