Costa Norte
Magdalena Department
El Retén

El Retén

El Retén is a town and municipality of the in northern . El Retén has about 19,300 residents.
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  • Type: Town with 19,300 residents
  • Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Magdalena
  • Also known as: “Corregimiento El Reten”, “El Reten”, “El Retén Magdalena”, and “Reten”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aracataca.

Photo: Tim Buendia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small town in the of , to the south of . Largely unknown to travelers and even to the guidebooks, this town absolutely should not be overlooked in the itinerary of anyone with any interest in Gabriel García Márquez.

El Retén

Latitude
10.61208° or 10° 36′ 44″ north
Longitude
-74.26953° or 74° 16′ 10″ west
Population
19,300
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
Open location code
7727JP6J+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 703169949
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3683233
Wiki­data ID
Q547081
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“El Retén” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “El Retén (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “El Retén”
  • Cebuano: “El Retén”
  • Chinese: “El Retén”
  • Chinese: “埃爾雷滕”
  • Dutch: “El Retén”
  • French: “El Retén”
  • Galician: “El Retén”
  • Georgian: “ელ-რეტენი”
  • German: “El Retén”
  • Irish: “El Retén”
  • Italian: “El Retén”
  • Japanese: “エル・レテーン”
  • Japanese: “エル・レテン”
  • Kotava: “El Retén”
  • Malay: “El Retén”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “El Retén”
  • Persian: “ال رتن”
  • Polish: “El Retén”
  • Portuguese: “El Retén”
  • Russian: “Эль-Ретен”
  • Scots: “El Retén”
  • Spanish: “El Retén Magdalena”
  • Spanish: “El Retén”
  • Spanish: “Gentilicio: Reteneros ‘pata pelá’”
  • Swedish: “El Retén”
  • Tagalog: “El Retén”
  • Turkish: “El Reten (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “El Retén (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “El Reten belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “El Retén belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “El Retén”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Ретен”
  • Uzbek: “El Retén”
  • Vietnamese: “El Retén”
  • Waray (Philippines): “El Retén”
  • “El Retén Magdalena”

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