Uruguay
Rio de la Plata
Colonia Department

Colonia

Colonia del Sacramento is in southwestern , across from on the northern shore of the . Founded in 1680 as a Portuguese colony, Colonia's historic district is now a UNESCO World Heritage site, full of cobblestone streets lined with historic buildings.
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  • Type: City with 32,200 residents
  • Description: City in Uruguay, departmental capital of Colonia
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de la Colonia del Sacramento”, “Colonia del Sacramento”, and “La Ciudad de Colonia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Profesor Alberto Suppici and Portuguese House.

Stadium
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is a multi-use in Colonia, . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 6,500 people.

Museum
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is a museum.

Lighthouse
Photo: Eligna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a lighthouse located on the ruins of the Saint Francis Xavier convent in the historic district of Colonia del Sacramento, , . It was erected in 1857.

Colonia

Latitude
-34.4699° or 34° 28′ 12″ south
Longitude
-57.8434° or 57° 50′ 36″ west
Population
32,200
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
IATA airport code
CYR
United Nations Location Codes
UY CDS and UY CYR
Open location code
48Q4G5J4+3M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1382089438
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3443013
Wiki­data ID
Q56064
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Colonia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Arabic: “كولونيا ديل ساكرامنتو”
  • Armenian: “Կոլոնիա դել Սակրամենտո”
  • Asturian: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sakramento koloniyası”
  • Basque: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Belarusian: “Калёнія-дэль-Сакрамэнта”
  • Belarusian: “Калонія-дэль-Сакрамента”
  • Bengali: “কোলোনিয়া দেল সাক্রামেন্তো”
  • Bulgarian: “Колония дел Сакраменто”
  • Catalan: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Cebuano: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Chinese: “科洛尼亚-德尔萨克拉门托”
  • Chinese: “科洛尼亞·德爾·沙加緬度”
  • Chinese: “科洛尼亞·德爾薩克拉門托”
  • Chinese: “萨拉门多移民镇”
  • Croatian: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Czech: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Danish: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Dutch: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Dutch: “Colonia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولونيا ديل ساكرامنتو”
  • Esperanto: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Finnish: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • French: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Galician: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Georgian: “კოლონია-დელ-საკრამენტო”
  • German: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Greek: “Κολόνια ντελ Σακραμέντο”
  • Hebrew: “קולוניה דל סקרמנטו”
  • Hungarian: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Ido: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Italian: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Japanese: “コロニア・デル・サクラメント”
  • Korean: “콜로니아델사크라멘토”
  • Ladino: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Latvian: “Kolonija del Sakramento”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolonija del Sakramentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolonija”
  • Maltese: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Mingrelian: “კოლონია-დელ-საკრამენტო”
  • Northern Frisian: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Norwegian: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Persian: “کولونیا دل ساکرامنتو”
  • Polish: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Portuguese: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Portuguese: “Colonia do Sacramento”
  • Portuguese: “Colônia do Sacramento”
  • Portuguese: “Colônia do Santíssimo Sacramento”
  • Russian: “Колония дель Сакраменто”
  • Russian: “Колония-дель-Сакраменто”
  • Scots: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Serbian: “Колонија дел Сакраменто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Sinhala: “කොලෝනියා ඩෙල් සැක්‍රමෙන්ටෝ, උරුගුවේ”
  • Slovak: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Slovenian: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Spanish: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Spanish: “Colonia del Santísimo Sacramento”
  • Spanish: “Sacramento”
  • Swedish: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Tamil: “சாக்ரமெந்தோ குடியேற்றப் பகுதி”
  • Thai: “โกโลเนียเดลซากราเมนโต”
  • Turkish: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Ukrainian: “Колонія-дель-Сакраменто”
  • Urdu: “کولونیا دیل ساکرامینتو”
  • Vietnamese: “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • Vietnamese: “Colonia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colonia del Sacramento”
  • “Colonia del Sacramento”

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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 “Colonia”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.