Fonseca
Fonseca is a municipality located in the Colombian Department of La Guajira. The town celebrates the Festival del Retorno in honor of St Augustine with religious celebrations, vallenato music events and others.
- Town with about 42,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 170 metres (550 feet)
- …is also known as “Fonseca, La Guajira”
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of La Guajira
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Distracción.
Distracción
Distracción is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of La Guajira.
6 km west of Fonseca
Fonseca
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Latitude
10.8862° or 10° 53′ 10″ north
Longitude
-72.838° or 72° 50′ 17″ west
Open location code
7729V5P6+FQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Fonseca” goes by many names.
FonsecaAsturian
Fonseca (Colombia)Asturian
FonsecaCebuano
Fonseca (munisipyo)Cebuano
丰塞卡Chinese
豐塞卡Chinese
FonsecaDutch
FonsecaGalician
Fonseca, La GuajiraGalician
ფონსეკაGeorgian
FonsecaIrish
FonsecaItalian
FonsecaMalay
Fonseca, La GuajiraMalay
FonsecaMin Nan Chinese
فونسسکاPersian
فونسسکا (لا گواخیرا)Persian
FonsecaPolish
ФонсекаRussian
FonsecaSwedish
FonsecaTagalog
Fonseca, La GuajiraTagalog
FonsecaTurkish
Fonseca (belediye)Turkish
Fonseca belediyesiTurkish
فونسیسا، لا گواخیراUrdu
FonsecaVietnamese
FonsecaWaray (Philippines)
Fonseca, La GuajiraWaray (Philippines)
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