Jerico
Jerico is a small town in Antioquia. It is part of Colombia's Network of Heritage Towns, which is a collection of 17 destinations characterized by having a distinctive architecture, native culture, its own cuisine, natural environment, and for preserving part of the history and development of the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kamilokardona, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 7,750 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Antioquia
- Also known as: “Jericó” and “Jericó, Antioquia”
Jerico
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Antioquia, Andino, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.7915° or 5° 47′ 29″ northLongitude
-75.7862° or 75° 47′ 10″ westPopulation
7,750Elevation
1,987 metres (6,519 feet)United Nations Location Code
CO JEROpen location code
67Q6Q6R7+HGOpenStreetMap ID
node 9012769378OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Jerico” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Jericó (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Jericó”
- Bishnupriya: “জেরিকো”
- Catalan: “Jericó”
- Cebuano: “Jericó”
- Chinese: “Jericó”
- Chinese: “赫里科”
- Dutch: “Jericó”
- French: “Jericó”
- Galician: “Jericó, Antioquia”
- Georgian: “ხერიკო”
- Iloko: “Jericó, Antioquia”
- Iloko: “Jericó”
- Interlingue: “Jericó”
- Irish: “Jericó”
- Italian: “Jericó”
- Japanese: “ヘリコ”
- Kotava: “Jericó (Antioquia)”
- Kotava: “Jericó”
- Malay: “Jericó”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jericó”
- Persian: “خریکو (انتیوکیا)”
- Persian: “خریکو”
- Polish: “Jericó”
- Portuguese: “Jericó”
- Romanian: “Jericó, Antioquia”
- Romanian: “Jericó”
- Russian: “Херико”
- Spanish: “Jerico”
- Spanish: “Jericó”
- Swedish: “Jericó”
- Tagalog: “Jericó”
- Turkish: “Jericó (Antioquia)”
- Turkish: “Jericó (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Jericó belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Jericó, Antioquia”
- Turkish: “Jericó”
- Uzbek: “Jericó”
- Vietnamese: “Jericó, Antioquia”
- Vietnamese: “Jericó”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jericó”
- Welsh: “Jericó”
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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 “Jerico”. Photo: Kamilokardona, CC BY-SA 4.0.