Colombia
Casanare Department
San Luis de Palenque

Monument

A monument is a type of structure created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance.
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Photo: Nostrix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: imposing structure created to commemorate a person or event, or used for that purpose
  • Also known as: “monument”, “Monumento El Gavan”, and “monuments”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scenic viewpoint and Urban park.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Analogue Kid, CC BY 2.5.
A scenic viewpoint—also called an observation point, viewpoint, viewing point, vista point, scenic overlook, etc.—is an elevated location where people can view scenery and photograph it.

Recreation area
Photo: Dan DeLuca, CC BY 2.0.
An or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park, public park, public open space, or municipal gardens, is a or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other incorporated places that offers green space and places for recreation to residents and visitors. is situated 470 metres southwest of Monument.

Bleacher
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
A is a normally permanent structure for seating spectators, typically at sports stadiums and including both auto racing and horse racing. The is in essence like a single section of a , but differs from a stadium in that it does not wrap all or most of the way around. is situated 720 metres east of Monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Luis de Palenque and Trinidad.

Town
Photo: Llaneroibague, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town and municipality in the Department of , . The town is on a bend of the , a tributary of the . It is served by .

Town
is a town and municipality in the Department of , . In pre-Columbian times, the region was inhabited by the Achaguas, Guahibos and Chiricoas Indians, who were warrior and polygamous nomads, mainly engaged in deer hunting. is situated 8 km east of Monument.

Monument

Latitude
5.42285° or 5° 25′ 22″ north
Longitude
-71.73259° or 71° 43′ 57″ west
Open location code
67QCC7F8+4X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9453471096
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q4989906
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Monument” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “monument”
  • Afrikaans: “Monument”
  • Albanian: “monument”
  • Albanian: “Monumenti”
  • Arabic: “معلم تذكاري”
  • Armenian: “հուշարձան”
  • Armenian: “Հուշարձան”
  • Asturian: “monumentos”
  • Asturian: “monumentu”
  • Asturian: “Monumentu”
  • Azerbaijani: “abidə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Abidə”
  • Bashkir: “һәйкәл”
  • Basque: “monumentu”
  • Basque: “Monumentu”
  • Basque: “oroigarri”
  • Basque: “oroitarri”
  • Belarusian: “манумент”
  • Belarusian: “манумэнт”
  • Belarusian: “помнік”
  • Belarusian: “Помнік”
  • Bengali: “স্মৃতিসৌধ”
  • Breton: “monumant”
  • Breton: “Monumant”
  • Bulgarian: “паметник”
  • Bulgarian: “Паметник”
  • Catalan: “monument”
  • Catalan: “Monument”
  • Cebuano: “monument”
  • Central Bikol: “Monumento”
  • Central Kurdish: “یادپەیکەر”
  • Chinese: “紀念塔”
  • Chinese: “紀念建築物”
  • Chinese: “紀念碑”
  • Chinese: “纪念塔”
  • Chinese: “纪念建筑物”
  • Chinese: “纪念碑”
  • Chuvash: “Палăк”
  • Croatian: “spomenik”
  • Croatian: “Spomenik”
  • Czech: “monument”
  • Czech: “památka”
  • Czech: “památník”
  • Czech: “pomník”
  • Czech: “Pomník”
  • Danish: “mindesmærke”
  • Danish: “monument”
  • Danish: “Monument”
  • Dutch: “gedenkmonument”
  • Dutch: “gedenksteen”
  • Dutch: “gedenkteken”
  • Dutch: “herdenkingsmonument”
  • Dutch: “monument ter herdenking van een persoon of gebeurtenis”
  • Dutch: “monument”
  • Dutch: “Monument”
  • Eastern Mari: “Чапкӱ”
  • Esperanto: “monumento”
  • Esperanto: “Monumento”
  • Estonian: “mälestusmärk”
  • Estonian: “Mälestusmärk”
  • Estonian: “monument”
  • Finnish: “monumentti”
  • Finnish: “Monumentti”
  • French: “monument”
  • French: “Monument”
  • Galician: “monumento”
  • Galician: “Monumento”
  • Georgian: “ძეგლი”
  • German: “Denkmal”
  • German: “Ehrenmal”
  • German: “Heldendenkmal”
  • German: “Herrscherdenkmal”
  • German: “monument”
  • German: “Monument”
  • Greek: “μνημείο”
  • Greek: “Μνημείο”
  • Guarani: “Ta’ãnga’ita”
  • Gujarati: “સ્મારક”
  • Haitian: “Moniman”
  • Hebrew: “מונומנט”
  • Hindi: “स्मारक”
  • Hungarian: “emlékmű”
  • Hungarian: “műemlék”
  • Ido: “monumento”
  • Ido: “Monumento”
  • Indonesian: “monumen”
  • Indonesian: “Monumen”
  • Ingush: “Сийленг”
  • Interlingua: “monumento”
  • Interlingua: “Monumento”
  • Irish: “leacht cuimhneacháin”
  • Italian: “monumenti”
  • Italian: “monumento”
  • Italian: “Monumento”
  • Japanese: “モニュメント”
  • Japanese: “記念碑”
  • Javanese: “Monumèn”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಮಾರಕ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “estelik”
  • Kazakh: “Ескерткіш”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ubusobanuro bwa monument”
  • Kirghiz: “Эстелик”
  • Korean: “기념건축물”
  • Korean: “기념물”
  • Kurdish: “bîrdar”
  • Latin: “monumentum”
  • Latin: “Monumentum”
  • Latvian: “piemineklis”
  • Latvian: “Piemineklis”
  • Lithuanian: “paminklas”
  • Lithuanian: “Paminklas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Denkmal”
  • Luxembourgish: “Memorial”
  • Luxembourgish: “Monument”
  • Macedonian: “паметник”
  • Macedonian: “споменик”
  • Macedonian: “Споменик”
  • Malay: “monumen”
  • Malay: “Monumen”
  • Malay: “tugu”
  • Malay: “توݢو”
  • Malay: “مونومن”
  • Malayalam: “സ്മാരകം”
  • Maltese: “monument”
  • Maltese: “Monument”
  • Marathi: “स्मारक”
  • Minangkabau: “monumen”
  • Northern Frisian: “seenksteed”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “monument”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “monument”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monument”
  • Norwegian: “Monument”
  • Ossetian: “цырт”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਮਾਰਕ”
  • Papiamento: “monumento”
  • Papiamento: “Monumento”
  • Persian: “یادمان”
  • Persian: “یادمانی”
  • Polish: “monument”
  • Polish: “pomnik”
  • Polish: “Pomnik”
  • Portuguese: “monumento”
  • Portuguese: “Monumento”
  • Romanian: “monument”
  • Romanian: “Monument”
  • Russian: “монумент”
  • Russian: “памятник”
  • Russian: “Памятник”
  • Scots: “monument”
  • Scots: “Monument”
  • Serbian: “spomenik”
  • Serbian: “споменик”
  • Serbian: “Споменик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “spomenik”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Spomenik”
  • Slovenian: “pomnik”
  • Slovenian: “spomenik”
  • Slovenian: “Spomenik”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عابیده”
  • Spanish: “monumento”
  • Spanish: “Monumento”
  • Swedish: “Minnesmärke”
  • Swedish: “monument”
  • Swiss German: “Dänkmool”
  • Tajik: “ёдгорӣ”
  • Tajik: “Ёдгорӣ”
  • Tajik: “ёдмонӣ”
  • Tamil: “நினைவுச் சின்னம்”
  • Tatar: “һәйкәл”
  • Tatar: “Һәйкәл”
  • Telugu: “స్మారకచిహ్నం”
  • Thai: “อนุสรณ์”
  • Thai: “อนุสรณ์สถาน”
  • Thai: “อนุสาวรีย์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Denkmal”
  • Turkish: “abide”
  • Turkish: “anıt”
  • Turkish: “Anıt”
  • Udmurt: “монумент”
  • Udmurt: “синпелет”
  • Ukrainian: “меморіал”
  • Ukrainian: “монумент”
  • Ukrainian: “пам’ятник”
  • Ukrainian: “Пам’ятник”
  • Upper Sorbian: “pomnik”
  • Urdu: “یادگار”
  • Uzbek: “monument”
  • Uzbek: “Monument”
  • Venetian: “Monumento”
  • Vietnamese: “đài kỷ niệm”
  • Vietnamese: “đài tưởng niệm”
  • Vietnamese: “Di tích”
  • Vietnamese: “tượng đài”
  • Waray (Philippines): “monumento”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Monumento”
  • Welsh: “cofadail”
  • Welsh: “Cofadeilad”
  • Western Armenian: “Յուշարձան”
  • Western Mari: “Ӓштемик”
  • Wu Chinese: “纪念建筑物”
  • Yiddish: “מאנומענט”
  • Yue Chinese: “紀念建築物”

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