Cogua
Cogua is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. It is situated on northern part of the Bogotá savanna with the urban centre at an altitude of 2,600 metres at 50 kilometres from the capital Bogotá.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Oscar Hernando Fandiño Pinilla, CC BY 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zipaquirá.
Zipaquirá
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Zipaquirá is a cute colonial town of some 70,000 people about an hour north of Bogotá in the Cundinamarca province. It is Colombia's salt mining capital and is famous for its Salt Cathedral, constructed almost entirely of salt within a defunct mine.
Cogua
- Type: Town with 4,760 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Cundinamarca
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Cogua, Cundinamarca, Andino, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
5.06071° or 5° 3′ 39″ northLongitude
-73.97661° or 73° 58′ 36″ westPopulation
4,760Elevation
2,631 metres (8,632 feet)United Nations Location Code
CO CGAOpen location code
67Q8326F+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 703168800OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Cogua” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cogua (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Cogua”
- Cebuano: “Cogua”
- Chinese: “Cogua”
- Chinese: “科瓜”
- Dutch: “Cogua”
- French: “Cogua”
- Galician: “Cogua”
- Georgian: “კოგუა”
- German: “Cogua”
- Irish: “Cogua”
- Italian: “Cogua”
- Kotava: “Cogua”
- Malay: “Cogua”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cogua”
- Persian: “کوگوآ”
- Polish: “Cogua”
- Spanish: “Cogua”
- Swedish: “Cogua”
- Tagalog: “Cogua”
- Turkish: “Cogua (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Cogua belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Cogua”
- Uzbek: “Cogua”
- Vietnamese: “Cogua”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cogua”
- “Cogua”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Parroquia de San Antonio de Padua and Alcaldía Municipal de Cogua.
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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 “Cogua”. Photo: Oscar Hernando Fandiño Pinilla, CC BY 2.0.