El Cocuy
El Cocuy is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the sub-region of the Gutiérrez Province. The national natural park El Cocuy National Park is nearby.- Type: Town with 4,220 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Boyacá
- Also known as: “Cocuy”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Panqueba and Güicán.
Panqueba
Town
Güicán
Town
Güicán de la Sierra, also known as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Güicán, is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá. It is close to the national natural park El Cocuy National Park. Güicán is situated 7 km northeast of El Cocuy.
El Espino
Town
El Espino is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Gutiérrez Province. El Espino is situated 10 km northwest of El Cocuy.
El Cocuy
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: El Cocuy, Boyacá, Andino, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.40767° or 6° 24′ 28″ north
Longitude
-72.44575° or 72° 26′ 45″ west
Population
4,220
Elevation
2,646 metres (8,681 feet)
Open location code
67R9CH53+3M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“El Cocuy” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “El Cocuy (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “El Cocuy”
- Cebuano: “El Cocuy”
- Chinese: “El Cocuy”
- Chinese: “埃尔科奎”
- Chinese: “埃爾科奎”
- Dutch: “El Cocuy”
- French: “El Cocuy”
- Galician: “El Cocuy”
- Georgian: “ელ-კოკუი”
- Irish: “El Cocuy”
- Italian: “El Cocuy”
- Kotava: “El Cocuy”
- Malay: “El Cocuy”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Cocuy”
- Persian: “ال کوکوی”
- Polish: “El Cocuy”
- Portuguese: “El Cocuy”
- Russian: “Эль-Кокуй”
- Scottish Gaelic: “El Cocuy”
- Spanish: “El Cocuy”
- Swedish: “El Cocuy”
- Tagalog: “El Cocuy”
- Turkish: “El Cocuy (belediye)”
- Turkish: “El Cocuy belediyesi”
- Turkish: “El Cocuy”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Кокуй”
- Urdu: “ایل کوکوی”
- Uzbek: “El Cocuy”
- Vietnamese: “El Cocuy”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Cocuy”
- “El Cocuy”
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