Enciso
Enciso is a town and municipality in the García Rovira Province, part of Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Founded on September 9, 1773, by Juan de Enciso, the liberating campaign of Simon Bolivar passed by this municipality on 7 occasions between the years 1814 and 1821.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 3,990 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Santander
- Also known as: “Enciso, Santander”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Málaga and San José de Miranda.
Málaga
Town
Photo: Suarezka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Málaga is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Málaga is situated 5 km northwest of Enciso.
San José de Miranda
Town
San José de Miranda is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. San José de Miranda is situated 4 km west of Enciso.
Enciso
- Categories: municipality of Colombia, residential area, and locality
- Location: Santander Department, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.6683° or 6° 40′ 6″ northLongitude
-72.6991° or 72° 41′ 57″ westPopulation
3,990Elevation
1,351 metres (4,432 feet)Open location code
67R9M892+89OpenStreetMap ID
way 580278484OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Enciso” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Enciso (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Enciso”
- Cebuano: “Enciso”
- Chinese: “Enciso”
- Chinese: “恩西索”
- Dutch: “Enciso”
- French: “Enciso”
- Galician: “Enciso, Santander”
- Galician: “Enciso”
- Georgian: “ენსისო”
- German: “Enciso”
- Irish: “Enciso”
- Italian: “Enciso”
- Kotava: “Enciso”
- Malay: “Enciso, Colombia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Enciso”
- Polish: “Enciso (Kolumbia)”
- Polish: “Enciso”
- Russian: “Энсисо (Колумбия)”
- Russian: “Энсисо”
- Spanish: “Enciso”
- Swedish: “Enciso”
- Tagalog: “Enciso, Santander”
- Tagalog: “Enciso”
- Turkish: “Enciso (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Enciso belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Enciso”
- Uzbek: “Enciso (Santander)”
- Uzbek: “Enciso”
- Vietnamese: “Enciso”
- Waray (Philippines): “Enciso”
- “Enciso”
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Localities in the Area
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