Pico Cristóbal Colón
Pico Cristóbal Colón is possibly the highest mountain in Colombia, with a reported height of 5,775 metres. Pico Cristóbal Colón and Pico Simón Bolívar are the two highest peaks in Colombia and almost equal in elevation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 5,775 metres
- Description: mountain in Colombia
- Also known as: “Pico Cristobal Colon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pico Simón Bolívar.
Pico Simón Bolívar
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pico Simón Bolívar is possibly the highest mountain in Colombia, with an estimated height of 5,720 metres. Pico Bolívar and the neighbouring summit of Pico Cristóbal Colón are the two highest peaks in Colombia and are very nearly equal in elevation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Natural Park.
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Natural Park
Photo: Dwayne Reilander, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Natural Park is a large national park in the Caribbean coastal region of Colombia. The park is rugged terrain of mountainous forests and is inhabited by descendants of the Tayrona indigenous culture.
Pico Cristóbal Colón
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: La Guajira, Costa Norte, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.83895° or 10° 50′ 20″ northLongitude
-73.68658° or 73° 41′ 12″ westElevation
5,775 metres (18,947 feet)Open location code
7728R8Q7+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 671480146OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Pico Cristóbal Colón” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፒኮ ክሪስቶባል ኮሎን”
- Arabic: “جبل بيكو كريستوفال كولوم”
- Basque: “Pico Cristobal Colón”
- Belarusian: “Крыстобаль-Калон”
- Bosnian: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Catalan: “Gonawindua”
- Catalan: “Pic Cristóbal Colón”
- Cebuano: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Chinese: “哥伦布峰”
- Czech: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Dutch: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بيكو كريستوفال كولوم”
- Esperanto: “Monto Cristóbal Colón”
- Estonian: “Cristóbal Colóni mäetipp”
- Estonian: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Finnish: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- French: “pic Cristóbal Colón”
- French: “Pic Cristóbal Colón”
- Galician: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- German: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Hebrew: “פיקו קריסטובל קולון”
- Hungarian: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Indonesian: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Italian: “Picco Cristoforo Colombo”
- Japanese: “クリストバル・コロン山”
- Korean: “크리스토발콜론봉”
- Ladin: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Lithuanian: “Kristobal Kolono viršukalnė”
- Northern Frisian: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Norwegian: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Ossetian: “Кристобаль-Колон”
- Persian: “کریستوبال کولون”
- Polish: “Cristóbal Colón”
- Portuguese: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Russian: “Кристобаль-Колон”
- Scots: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Slovenian: “Pico Cristobal Colon”
- Slovenian: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Spanish: “Pico Cristobal Colon”
- Spanish: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Swahili: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Swedish: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
- Tajik: “Кристобал Колон”
- Ukrainian: “Піко-Крістобаль-Колон”
- Urdu: “کرسٹوبال کولون چوٹی”
- Venetian: “Pico Cristoforo Colombo”
- Vietnamese: “Pico Cristóbal Colón”
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Localities in the Area
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