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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 42,800 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of La Guajira
- Also known as: “Conejo” and “Fonseca, La Guajira”
Fonseca
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: La Guajira, Costa Norte, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
10.7773° or 10° 46′ 38″ northLongitude
-72.7986° or 72° 47′ 55″ westPopulation
42,800Elevation
227 metres (745 feet)Open location code
7729Q6G2+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 703379186OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3682376Wikidata 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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