Coloma
Coloma is a small town in El Dorado County in California's Gold Country region. It was home to Sutter's Mill, the site where the California Gold Rush began after gold was discovered in 1848.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 529 residents
- Description: census-designated place in California, United States
- Also known as: “Colluma”, “Coloma, CA”, “Coloma, California”, “Culloma”, and “Culoma”
- Postal code: 95613
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony.
Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony
Photo: NoeHill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony is believed to be the first permanent Japanese settlement in North America and the only settlement by samurai outside of Japan. Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony is situated 2½ miles south of Coloma.
Coloma
Latitude
38.7999° or 38° 47′ 60″ northLongitude
-120.8902° or 120° 53′ 25″ westPopulation
529Elevation
764 feet (233 metres)United Nations Location Code
US QLZOpen location code
84CXQ4X5+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 141038766OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Coloma” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coloma”
- Bulgarian: “Колома”
- Cebuano: “Coloma”
- Chechen: “Колома”
- Chinese: “科洛馬”
- Croatian: “Coloma”
- Dutch: “Colluma”
- Dutch: “Coloma”
- Dutch: “Culloma”
- French: “Coloma”
- German: “Coloma”
- Hungarian: “Coloma”
- Irish: “Coloma”
- Italian: “Coloma”
- Japanese: “コロマ”
- Ladin: “Coloma”
- Malagasy: “Coloma, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Coloma”
- Persian: “کولوما، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “کولوما”
- Polish: “Coloma”
- Portuguese: “Coloma”
- Russian: “Колома”
- Serbian: “Колома”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Coloma, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Coloma, Kalifornija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Coloma”
- South Azerbaijani: “کولوما، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Coloma”
- Swedish: “Coloma, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Coloma”
- Tatar: “Колома”
- Turkish: “Coloma”
- Ukrainian: “Колома”
- “Coloma”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Coloma”. Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.