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Monserrate

Monserrate is a mountain over 3,000 metres high that overlooks the city center of , the capital city of . It rises to 3,152 meters above the sea level, where there is a church with a shrine, devoted to El Señor Caído.
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Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monserrate Sanctuary and Gold Museum.

Church
Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Catholic shrine in , . The sanctuary was built between 1650 and 1657 and is 3,152 metres above sea level.

Museum
Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Gold is an archaeology museum located in , . It is one of the most visited touristic highlights in the country. The museum receives around 500,000 tourists per year.

Museum
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The is the National Museum of housing collections on its history, art, culture. Located in the locality of Bogotá, Colombia, it is the largest and oldest in Colombia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Fe and San Diego.

Suburb
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is the third locality of , the Capital District of . is part of the traditional downtown area where Bogotá was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada on August 6, 1538.

Neighborhood
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is a neighbourhood of , .

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is the historic center of , and the city's principal destination for tourists. Home to the top museums, the government palaces, and beautiful old colonial buildings along narrow cobblestone streets, it's a must see.

Monserrate

Latitude
4.606° or 4° 36′ 22″ north
Longitude
-74.05545° or 74° 3′ 20″ west
Elevation
3,152 metres (10,341 feet)
Open location code
67P7JW4V+CR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 753703692
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6951421
Wiki­data ID
Q152073
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Monserrate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مونسيرات (بوغوتا)”
  • Arabic: “مونسيرات”
  • Catalan: “Monserrate”
  • Cebuano: “Monserrate”
  • Chinese: “蒙塞拉特山”
  • Dutch: “Monserrate”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونسيرات”
  • Esperanto: “Monserrate”
  • French: “Cerro de Monserrate”
  • Galician: “Monserrate”
  • German: “Monserrate”
  • Italian: “Monserrate”
  • Japanese: “モンセラーテの丘”
  • Japanese: “モンセラーテ山”
  • Ladin: “Monserrate”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monserrate”
  • Norwegian: “Monserrate”
  • Portuguese: “Morro de Monserrate”
  • Slovenian: “Cerro Monserrate”
  • Spanish: “Cerro de Monserrate”
  • Spanish: “Cerro Monserrate”
  • Spanish: “Monserrate”
  • Swedish: “Monserrate”
  • Venetian: “Monserrate”

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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 “Monserrate”. Photo: Pedro Felipe, CC BY-SA 4.0.