Magdalena Department
Magdalena is a department of Colombia, located in the north of the country by the Caribbean Sea, with more than 1.3 million people. The capital of the Magdalena Department is Santa Marta and was named after the Magdalena River.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Santa Marta and Aracataca.
Aracataca
Aracataca is a small town in the Magdalena Department of Colombia, to the south of Santa Marta.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Taganga and Ciudad Perdida de Teyuna.
Ciudad Perdida de Teyuna
Ciudad Perdida is an ancient, ruined city located in the Colombian jungle close to Santa Marta.
Tayrona National Park
The popular Tayrona National Park lies on the Caribbean coast near Santa Marta in Colombia.
Minca
Minca is a small town 20 km away from Santa Marta in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.
Isla Salamanca Parkway
Isla Salamanca Parkway is a protected natural area…
Magdalena Department
- Department of Colombia with about 1,430,000 residents
- Neighbors
- Location
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Latitude of center
10° north
Longitude of center
-74.5° or 74° 30′ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Magdalena Department” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Magdalena (departement)”
- Afrikaans: “Magdalena”
- Amharic: “ማግዳሌና ዲፓርትመንት”
- Arabic: “إدارة ماجدالينا”
- Arabic: “ماجدالينا (كولومبيا)”
- Armenian: “Մագդալենա շրջան”
- Asturian: “departamentu de Magdalena”
- Asturian: “Magdalena”
- Azerbaijani: “Maqdalena departamenti”
- Azerbaijani: “Maqdalena”
- Basque: “Magdalena”
- Belarusian: “Магдалена”
- Bengali: “মাগডালেনা বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Magdalena”
- Bulgarian: “Магдалена”
- Catalan: “Departament de Magdalena”
- Catalan: “Departament del Magdalena”
- Catalan: “Magdalena”
- Cebuano: “Departamento del Magdalena”
- Chinese: “馬格達萊納省”
- Chinese: “马格达莱纳省”
- Croatian: “Magdalena”
- Czech: “Departement Magdalena”
- Czech: “Magdalena”
- Danish: “Magdalena Department”
- Dimli (individual language): “Magdalena”
- Dutch: “Magdalena”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Magdalena”
- Esperanto: “Magdalena”
- Finnish: “Magdalena”
- French: “Département de Magdalena”
- French: “Magdalena”
- Galician: “Departamento de Magdalena”
- Galician: “Magdalena, Colombia”
- Galician: “Magdalena”
- Georgian: “მაგდალენას დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “CO-MAG”
- German: “Departamento del Magdalena”
- German: “Magdalena”
- Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Μαγδαλένα”
- Greek: “διαμέρισμα Μαγκνταλένας”
- Gujarati: “માગ્દાલેના વિભાગ”
- Hausa: “Sashen Magdalena”
- Hebrew: “מגדלנה (מחוז)”
- Hebrew: “מגדלנה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מגדלנה”
- Hindi: “माग्दालेना विभाग”
- Hindi: “मेगडेलिना विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Magdalena megye”
- Iloko: “Departamento ti Magdalena”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Magdalena”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Magdalena”
- Italian: “Magdalena”
- Japanese: “マグダレーナ県”
- Japanese: “マグダレナ県”
- Javanese: “Departemen Magdalena”
- Kannada: “ಮ್ಯಾಗ್ಡಲೇನಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Kazakh: “Магдалена департаменті”
- Kirghiz: “Магдалена департаменти”
- Korean: “마그달레나주”
- Korean: “막달레나 주”
- Kotava: “KolombiaMagdalenaWinka”
- Ladino: “Magdalena”
- Latvian: “Magdalenas departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Magdalenos departamentas”
- Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Magdalena”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran Magdalena”
- Marathi: “मॅग्डालेना विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Magdalena”
- Northern Frisian: “Magdalena (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Magdalena”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Magdalena”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Magdalena-departementet”
- Norwegian: “Magdalena”
- Oromo: “Kutaa Magdalena”
- Ossetian: “Магдаленæ”
- Panjabi: “ਮੱਗਦਲੇਨਾ ਵਿਭਾਗ”
- Persian: “بخش ماگدالنا”
- Persian: “شهرستان ماگدالنا”
- Polish: “Magdalena”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Magdalena”
- Portuguese: “Magdalena”
- Pushto: “مگدالنا ولایت”
- Quechua: “Magdalena suyu”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Magdalena”
- Russian: “Магдалена”
- Samogitian: “Magdalenas departaments”
- Scots: “Magdalena Depairtment”
- Scots: “Magdalena, Colombie”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Magdalena”
- Serbian: “Magdalena region”
- Serbian: “Магдалена регион”
- Serbian: “Магдалена”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Departman Magdalena”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Magdalena”
- Sinhala: “මගල්දේනා දෙපාර්තමන්තුව”
- Sinhala: “මග්ඩලේනා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
- Slovenian: “CO-MAG”
- Slovenian: “Departamento del Magdalena”
- Slovenian: “Departma Magdalena”
- Somali: “Gobolka Magdalena”
- Spanish: “Departamento del Magdalena”
- Spanish: “Magdalena”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⵎⴰⴳⴷⴰⵍⵉⵏⴰ”
- Swahili: “Idara ya Magdalena”
- Swedish: “Magdalena, Colombia”
- Swedish: “Magdalena”
- Tagalog: “Magdalena”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Магдалена”
- Tamil: “மக்தாலென துறை”
- Tatar: “Магдалена департаменты”
- Telugu: “మాగ్డాలెనా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “మాగ్డాలెనా విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดมักดาเลนา”
- Turkish: “Magdalena”
- Ukrainian: “Магдалена”
- Ukrainian: “Маґдалена”
- Urdu: “ماگدالینا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “ماگدالینا محکمہ”
- Uzbek: “Magdalena departamenti”
- Vietnamese: “Magdalena”
- Waray (Philippines): “Magdalena”
- Wayuu: “Makütaleena”
- Western Armenian: “Մակտալենայի վարչակազմ”
- Western Panjabi: “مگدالینا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “马格达莱纳省”
- Yoruba: “Magdalena Department”
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