Distracción
Distracción is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of La Guajira. Founded in 1845 by a man from neighboring Barrancas named Antonio María Vidal on the right margin of the Ranchería River.
- Type: Town with 13,000 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of La Guajira
- Also known as: “Distracción, La Guajira”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fonseca.
Fonseca
Town
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. Fonseca is situated 6 km east of Distracción.
Distracción
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Distracción, La Guajira, Costa Norte, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.89937° or 10° 53′ 58″ north
Longitude
-72.88757° or 72° 53′ 15″ west
Population
13,000
Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)
Open location code
7729V4X6+PX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Distracción” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Distracción (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Distracción”
- Cebuano: “Distracción”
- Chinese: “Distracción”
- Chinese: “迪斯特拉克西翁”
- Dutch: “Distraccion”
- Dutch: “Distracción”
- French: “Distracción”
- Galician: “Distracción, La Guajira”
- Galician: “Distracción”
- Georgian: “დისტრასიონი”
- German: “Distracción”
- Irish: “Distracción”
- Italian: “Distraccion”
- Italian: “Distracción”
- Japanese: “ディストラクシオン”
- Malay: “Distracción, La Guajira”
- Malay: “Distracción”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Distracción”
- Persian: “دیستراکسیون (لا گواخیرا)”
- Persian: “دیستراکسیون”
- Polish: “Distracción”
- Portuguese: “Distracción”
- Russian: “Дистраксьон”
- Spanish: “Distraccion Colombia”
- Spanish: “Distracción Colombia”
- Spanish: “Distraccion”
- Spanish: “Distracción”
- Swedish: “Distracción”
- Tagalog: “Distracción, La Guajira”
- Tagalog: “Distracción”
- Turkish: “Distraccion (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Distracción (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Distraccion belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Distracción belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Distracción”
- Urdu: “دستراکسیون، لا گواخیرا”
- Vietnamese: “Distracción”
- Waray (Philippines): “Distracción, La Guajira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Distracción”
- “Distracción”
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