Colombia
Tolima Department
Falan

Falan

Falan is a town and municipality in the department of . Falan was founded before 1539, by the Guandecas and Pomponáes tribes. It was discovered by Spanish Baltazar Maldonado in 1539.
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  • Type: Town with 9,200 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Tolima
  • Also known as: “Santa Ana”, “Santana”, and “Santana de Lajas”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Palocabildo and Fresno.

Town
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is a town and municipality in the department of . is situated 8 km west of Falan.

Town
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is a town and municipality in the department of . It is located 142 kilometres from . It was founded in 1574 by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. The population of the municipality was 28,920 as of the 2018 census. is situated 10 km west of Falan.

Falan

Latitude
5.12402° or 5° 7′ 27″ north
Longitude
-74.95162° or 74° 57′ 6″ west
Population
9,200
Elevation
974 metres (3,196 feet)
Open location code
67Q742FX+J9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287000767
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3682510
Wiki­data ID
Q1577895
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Falan” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Falan (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Falan”
  • Cebuano: “Falan”
  • Chinese: “Falan”
  • Chinese: “法兰”
  • Chinese: “法蘭”
  • Dutch: “Falan”
  • French: “Falan”
  • Galician: “Falan”
  • Georgian: “ფალანი”
  • Irish: “Falan”
  • Italian: “Falan”
  • Kotava: “Falan”
  • Malay: “Falan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Falan”
  • Persian: “فالان”
  • Polish: “Falán”
  • Spanish: “Falan”
  • Spanish: “Falán”
  • Swedish: “Falan”
  • Turkish: “Falan (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Falan belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Falan”
  • Urdu: “فالان”
  • Uzbek: “Falan”
  • Vietnamese: “Falán”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Falan”
  • “Falan”

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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 “Falan”. Photo: DARNEY, CC BY 3.0.