Colón
Colón is a town in Colón Municipality of the State of Querétaro, Mexico. It is the only one in the country named after Christopher Columbus. It's the state's third largest municipality, with 815 square kilometers.
- Type: Town with 7,010 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Colón, State of Querétaro, Mexico
- Also known as: “Colon” and “Colón, Querétaro”
Colón
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Colón, Querétaro, Bajío, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
20.78253° or 20° 46′ 57″ north
Longitude
-100.04837° or 100° 2′ 54″ west
Population
7,010
Elevation
1,931 metres (6,335 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MX CLN
Open location code
75GXQXM2+2M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tatar—“Colón” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Colón”
- Chechen: “Колон (Колон, Керетаро)”
- Chechen: “Колон”
- French: “Colón”
- Georgian: “კოლონი (კერეტარო)”
- Georgian: “კოლონი”
- Russian: “Колон”
- Serbian: “Колон (Колон, Керетаро)”
- Serbian: “Колон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colón, Querétaro”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colón”
- Spanish: “Colon”
- Spanish: “Colón”
- Swedish: “Colón, Mexiko”
- Swedish: “Colón”
- Tatar: “Колон (Колон, Керетаро)”
- Tatar: “Колон”
- “Colón”
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