Colombia
Costa Norte
La Guajira

Fonseca

Fonseca is a municipality located in the Department of . The town celebrates the Festival del Retorno in honor of St Augustine with religious celebrations, vallenato music events and others.
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  • Type: Village with 42,800 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of La Guajira
  • Also known as: “Conejo” and “Fonseca, La Guajira”

Fonseca

Latitude
10.7773° or 10° 46′ 38″ north
Longitude
-72.7986° or 72° 47′ 55″ west
Population
42,800
Elevation
227 metres (745 feet)
Open location code
7729Q6G2+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 703379186
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3682376
Wiki­data ID
Q1441074
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Fonseca” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Fonseca (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Fonseca”
  • Cebuano: “Fonseca (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Fonseca”
  • Chinese: “Fonseca”
  • Chinese: “丰塞卡”
  • Chinese: “豐塞卡”
  • Dutch: “Fonseca”
  • French: “Fonseca”
  • Galician: “Fonseca, La Guajira”
  • Galician: “Fonseca”
  • Georgian: “ფონსეკა”
  • German: “Fonseca”
  • Irish: “Fonseca”
  • Italian: “Fonseca”
  • Malay: “Fonseca, La Guajira”
  • Malay: “Fonseca”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fonseca”
  • Persian: “فونسسکا (لا گواخیرا)”
  • Persian: “فونسسکا”
  • Polish: “Fonseca”
  • Portuguese: “Fonseca”
  • Russian: “Фонсека”
  • Spanish: “Fonseca”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Fonseca”
  • Swedish: “Fonseca”
  • Tagalog: “Fonseca, La Guajira”
  • Tagalog: “Fonseca”
  • Turkish: “Fonseca (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Fonseca belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Fonseca”
  • Vietnamese: “Fonseca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fonseca, La Guajira”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fonseca”
  • “Fonseca”

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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 “Fonseca”. Photo: HalvisC, CC BY 3.0.