Cerrejón
Cerrejón is a large open-pit coal mine in Northern Colombia owned by Glencore. At Cerrejón, low-ash, low-sulphur bituminous coal from the Cerrejón Formation is excavated.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarry
- Description: Large open-pit coal mine in Colombia
- Also known as: “Cerrejon”, “Complejo Carbonífero El Cerrejón”, “El Cerrejon”, and “El Cerrejón”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hatonuevo.
Hatonuevo
Town
Hatonuevo, Spanish for New Herd, Is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of La Guajira. A municipality of the La Guajira Department since 1994, it has a population of approximately 17,014 inhabitants, the majority of which being workers of El Cerrejon coal mine. Hatonuevo is situated 8 km west of Cerrejón.
Cerrejón
- Categories: coal mine, opencast mine, and industry
- Location: Barrancas, La Guajira, Costa Norte, Colombia, South America
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Latitude
11.04887° or 11° 2′ 56″ northLongitude
-72.68809° or 72° 41′ 17″ westOpen location code
773928X6+GQOpenStreetMap ID
way 52823829OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarryWikidata ID
Q1323960
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Cerrejón” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيريخون”
- Cebuano: “Cerro Cerrejón”
- Chinese: “塞雷洪煤矿”
- Chinese: “塞雷洪煤礦”
- Dutch: “Cerrejón”
- French: “Cerrejon”
- French: “Cerrejón”
- French: “El Cerrejón”
- French: “Mine de Cerrejon”
- French: “Mine de Cerrejón”
- French: “mine de charbon de Cerrejón”
- French: “Mine de charbon de Cerrejón”
- German: “El Cerrejón”
- Indonesian: “Cerrejón”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cerrejón”
- Slovenian: “Cerrejón”
- Slovenian: “El Cerrejón”
- Spanish: “Cerrejón”
- Spanish: “El Cerrejón”
- Swedish: “Cerro Cerrejón”
- Ukrainian: “Cerrejón mine”
- Ukrainian: “mina de Cerrejón”
- Ukrainian: “Серрехон”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cerrejón Central Airport and Cerro del Cerrejón.
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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 Wikipedia page “Cerrejón”. Photo: Hour.poing, CC BY-SA 3.0.