Galeras
Galeras is a town and municipality located in the Sucre Department, northern Colombia. The main economic activities are agriculture and cattle raising. Galeras is 50 km away from the department's capital, Sincelejo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 20,200 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Sucre
- Also known as: “Corregimiento Nueva Granada”, “Galeras, Sucre”, and “Nueva Granada”
Galeras
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Galeras, Sucre Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
9.16091° or 9° 9′ 39″ northLongitude
-75.04791° or 75° 2′ 53″ westPopulation
20,200Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)United Nations Location Code
CO GRLOpen location code
67X65X62+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 458915177OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Galeras” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Galeras (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Galeras”
- Cebuano: “Galeras”
- Chinese: “Galeras”
- Chinese: “加萊拉斯”
- Dutch: “Galeras”
- Estonian: “Galeras”
- French: “Galeras”
- Galician: “Galeras, Sucre”
- Galician: “Galeras”
- Georgian: “გალერასი”
- German: “Galeras”
- Irish: “Galeras”
- Italian: “Galeras”
- Kotava: “Galeras”
- Malay: “Galeras, Sucre”
- Malay: “Galeras”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Galeras”
- Persian: “گالراس”
- Polish: “Galeras (Kolumbia)”
- Polish: “Galeras”
- Russian: “Галерас (Колумбия)”
- Russian: “Галерас”
- Spanish: “Galeras”
- Swedish: “Galeras”
- Turkish: “Galeras (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Galeras belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Galeras”
- Vietnamese: “Galeras, Sucre”
- Vietnamese: “Galeras”
- Waray (Philippines): “Galeras, Sucre”
- Waray (Philippines): “Galeras”
- “Galeras”
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