La Dorada
La Dorada is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Dorada–Guaduas. It is situated on the banks of Colombia's principal river, the Magdalena.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 76,200 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Caldas
- Also known as: “Dorada” and “La Dorada, Caldas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base.
Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base
Aerodrome
Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base is a Colombian military base assigned to the Colombian Aerospace Force Combat Air Command No. 1. The base is located in Palanquero, near Puerto Salgar, in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia. Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base is situated 4 km north of La Dorada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Puerto Salgar.
Puerto Salgar
Town
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Puerto Salgar is a municipality and town of Colombia in the northwestern part of the department of Cundinamarca. It came to international attention when the US ambassador in Colombia announced the Palanquero Air Base had entered a recertification process, possibly in order to host US military personnel as a replacement to the Manta Air Base.
La Dorada
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: La Dorada, Caldas Department, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.4458° or 5° 26′ 45″ northLongitude
-74.6618° or 74° 39′ 43″ westPopulation
76,200Elevation
176 metres (577 feet)Open location code
67Q7C8WQ+87OpenStreetMap ID
node 263295783OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3679277Wikidata ID
Q2279516
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“La Dorada” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “La Dorada (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “La Dorada”
- Catalan: “La Dorada”
- Cebuano: “La Dorada”
- Chinese: “La Dorada”
- Chinese: “拉多拉达”
- Chinese: “拉多拉達”
- Dutch: “La Dorada”
- French: “La Dorada”
- Galician: “La Dorada, Caldas”
- Galician: “La Dorada”
- Georgian: “ლა-დორადა”
- German: “La Dorada”
- Hebrew: “לה דורדה”
- Irish: “La Dorada”
- Italian: “La Dorada”
- Kotava: “La Dorada”
- Malay: “La Dorada, Caldas”
- Malay: “La Dorada”
- Min Nan Chinese: “La Dorada”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Dorada”
- Persian: “لا دورادا”
- Polish: “La Dorada”
- Portuguese: “La Dorada”
- Russian: “Ла-Дорада (Колумбия)”
- Russian: “Ла-Дорада”
- Spanish: “La Dorada”
- Swedish: “La Dorada”
- Tagalog: “La Dorada, Caldas”
- Tagalog: “La Dorada”
- Turkish: “La Dorada (belediye)”
- Turkish: “La Dorada belediyesi”
- Turkish: “La Dorada”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Дорада”
- Urdu: “لا دوراڈا، کالڈاس”
- Vietnamese: “La Dorada”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Dorada, Caldas”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Dorada”
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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 “La Dorada”. Photo: XalD, CC BY-SA 4.0.