Contratación
Contratación is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. Contratación has about 3,510 residents and an elevation of 1,645 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 3,510 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Santander
- Also known as: “Contratacion”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Guacamayo and Guadalupe.
El Guacamayo
Town
El Guacamayo is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. El Guacamayo is situated 6 km southwest of Contratación.
Guadalupe
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Guadalupe is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. It was founded in 1715 by the family Camacho Sabidos, in the lead of the Spanish Captain José Camacho Sabidos and management of Don Juan de Herrera and Tovar, according to church records of the year 1713. Guadalupe is situated 8 km southeast of Contratación.
Contratación
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Contratación, Santander Department, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
6.29074° or 6° 17′ 27″ northLongitude
-73.47456° or 73° 28′ 28″ westPopulation
3,510Elevation
1,645 metres (5,397 feet)Open location code
67R87GRG+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 703169189OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3685961Wikidata ID
Q1655552
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Contratación” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Contratación (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Contratación”
- Cebuano: “Contratación”
- Chinese: “Contratación”
- Chinese: “孔特拉塔西翁”
- Dutch: “Contratacion”
- Dutch: “Contratación”
- French: “Contratación”
- Galician: “Contratación, Santander”
- Galician: “Contratación”
- Georgian: “კონტრატასიონი”
- Irish: “Contratación”
- Italian: “Contratacion”
- Italian: “Contratación”
- Kotava: “Contratación”
- Malay: “Contratación”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Contratación”
- Persian: “کونتراتاسیون”
- Polish: “Contratación”
- Russian: “Контратасьон”
- Spanish: “Contratacion”
- Spanish: “Contratación”
- Spanish: “Contrataciones”
- Swedish: “Contratación”
- Tagalog: “Contratación”
- Turkish: “Contratacion (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Contratación (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Contratacion belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Contratación belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Contratación”
- Uzbek: “Contratación”
- Vietnamese: “Contratación”
- Waray (Philippines): “Contratación”
- “Contratación”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Contratación”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.