South America
Colombia
Santander Department

Vetas

Vetas is a town and municipality in the in northeastern , it is the only mainly Orthodox Christian town in Colombia. Vetas is also the highest municipality in Colombia measuring by altitude above sea level.
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Vetas

Latitude
7.3093° or 7° 18′ 33″ north
Longitude
-72.8718° or 72° 52′ 19″ west
Population
2,350
Elevation
3,228 metres (10,591 feet)
Open location code
67V9845H+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8109863010
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
9172027
Wiki­data ID
Q2184603
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Vetas” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Vetas (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Vetas”
  • Catalan: “Vetas”
  • Cebuano: “Vetas”
  • Chinese: “Vetas”
  • Chinese: “韋塔斯”
  • Dutch: “Vetas”
  • French: “Vetas”
  • Galician: “Vetas”
  • Georgian: “ვეტასი”
  • Indonesian: “Vetas”
  • Irish: “Vetas”
  • Italian: “Vetas”
  • Kotava: “Vetas”
  • Malay: “Vetas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vetas”
  • Persian: “وتاس”
  • Polish: “Vetas”
  • Russian: “Ветас”
  • Spanish: “Vetas”
  • Swedish: “Vetas”
  • Tagalog: “Vetas”
  • Turkish: “Vetas (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Vetas belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Vetas”
  • Vietnamese: “Vetas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vetas”
  • Welsh: “Vetas”

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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 “Vetas”. Photo: Paopeflorez, CC BY-SA 4.0.