Zipaquirá
Zipaquirá is a cute colonial town of some 70,000 people about an hour north of Bogotá in the Cundinamarca province. It is Colombia's salt mining capital and is famous for its Salt Cathedral, constructed almost entirely of salt within a defunct mine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 104,000 residents
- Description: Colombian municipality of the department of Cundinamarca
- Also known as: “Zipaquira”
Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá.
Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres underground in a halite mountain near the city of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Zipaquirá
- Categories: municipality of Colombia and locality
- Location: Cundinamarca, Andino, Colombia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.0235° or 5° 1′ 25″ northLongitude
-74.004° or 74° 0′ 14″ westPopulation
104,000Elevation
2,607 metres (8,553 feet)United Nations Location Code
CO ZQAOpen location code
67Q72XFW+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 703168803OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Zipaquirá” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Zipaquirá (Colombia)”
- Asturian: “Zipaquirá”
- Basque: “Zipaquirá”
- Bengali: “জিপাকিরা”
- Bulgarian: “Сипакира”
- Catalan: “Zipaquirá”
- Cebuano: “Zipaquirá”
- Chinese: “Zipaquirá”
- Chinese: “錫帕基拉”
- Chinese: “锡帕基拉”
- Danish: “Zipaquirá”
- Dutch: “Zipaquirá”
- Esperanto: “Zipaquirá”
- Finnish: “Zipaquirá”
- French: “Zipaquira”
- French: “Zipaquirá”
- Galician: “Zipaquirá”
- Georgian: “სიპაკირა”
- German: “Zipaquirá”
- Hebrew: “זיפאקווירה”
- Irish: “Zipaquirá”
- Italian: “Zipaquirá”
- Japanese: “シパキラ”
- Japanese: “スィパキラ”
- Korean: “시파키라”
- Kotava: “Zipaquirá”
- Ladino: “Zipaquirá”
- Malagasy: “Zipaquirá”
- Malay: “Zipaquirá”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zipaquirá”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zipaquirá”
- Norwegian: “Zipaquirá”
- Persian: “سیپاگیرا”
- Polish: “Zipaquirá”
- Portuguese: “Zipaquirá”
- Russian: “Сипакира”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Zipaquirá”
- Silesian: “Zipaquirá”
- Slovenian: “Zipaquirá”
- Spanish: “Zipaquira”
- Spanish: “Zipaquirá”
- Swedish: “Zipaquirá”
- Tagalog: “Zipaquirá”
- Tatar: “Зипакира”
- Turkish: “Zipaquira (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Zipaquirá (belediye)”
- Turkish: “Zipaquira belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Zipaquirá belediyesi”
- Turkish: “Zipaquirá”
- Uzbek: “Zipaquirá”
- Vietnamese: “Zipaquirá”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zipaquirá”
- “Zipaquirá”
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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 “Zipaquirá”. Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.