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Tequendama

Colombia

Average elevation: 1,628 m

Pacho

Colombia > Pacho

Pacho is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Pacho is part of the Rionegro Province and the urban centre is situated at a distance of 88 kilometres (55 mi) from the capital Bogotá at an altitude of 2,136 metres (7,008 ft), while the altitude ranges from 1,000 metres (3,300…

Average elevation: 1,881 m

Barbosa

Colombia > Santander

Average elevation: 1,713 m

Duitama

Colombia > Boyacá

Average elevation: 3,019 m

Jardín

Colombia > Antioquia

Average elevation: 2,353 m

Tunja

Colombia > Boyacá > Tunja

Tunja has a population of 172,548 inhabitants according to the 2018 Census. 0.1% of the city is indigenous, 0.4% is black, and 99.5% is white and Mestizo. It is located in central Colombia, at an elevation ranging from approximately 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) to 2,900 metres (9,500 ft). The city centre is at an…

Average elevation: 2,824 m

Bogota, Capital District

Colombia

Bogotá is located in the southeastern part of the Bogotá savanna (Sabana de Bogotá) at an average altitude of 2,640 meters (8,660 ft) above sea level. The Bogotá savanna is popularly called "savannah" (sabana), but constitutes actually a high plateau in the Andes mountains, part of an extended region known…

Average elevation: 2,183 m

Atlántico

Colombia

Average elevation: 35 m

Quindío

Colombia

With law 61 of 1985, the Colombian Congress adopted the Quindío wax palm tree, Ceroxylon quindiuense, a local endangered species adapted to high altitudes, as the National Tree. As ratified on September 16, 1985, by the then president of Colombia, Belisario Betancur, the law states: "The species commonly…

Average elevation: 2,057 m

Magdalena

Colombia

The Department of Magdalena, because of its terrain, and proximity to the sea has an unstable weather. Its Climate is mainly dictated by its global positioning, and because the department of Magdalena is located on the Intertropical Convergence Zone it possess an inter-tropical climate. Temperature in the…

Average elevation: 407 m

Nariño

Colombia

Nariño has a diverse geography and varied climate according to altitude: hot in the plains of the Pacific and cold in the mountains, where most of the population resides, a situation that is repeated in a north-south direction. Other important cities include Tumaco and Ipiales.

Average elevation: 1,156 m

El Espino

Colombia > Boyacá

Average elevation: 2,671 m

Bucaramanga

Colombia > Santander

Bucaramanga is located on a plateau in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes, and many residents occupy unstable lands descending steeply from the meseta. Westbound of it, the Rio de Oro Canyon is located at an altitude of 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level. Eastbound, the Andean Range rises up in…

Average elevation: 1,269 m

Arauca

Colombia

Average elevation: 409 m

Medellín

Colombia > Antioquia

Medellín has 16 comunas (districts), 5 corregimientos (townships), and 271 barrios (neighborhoods). The metropolitan area of Medellín lies within the Aburrá valley at an elevation of 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) above sea level and is bisected by the Medellín River (also called Porce), which flows northward.…

Average elevation: 2,094 m

Santa Marta

Colombia > Magdalena > Santa Marta

Average elevation: 214 m

Monterrey

Colombia > Casanare

The city of Monterrey is 540 metres (1,770 ft) above sea level in the northeastern state of Nuevo León. Monterrey translated from Spanish to English is "King Mount" or "King mountain", which refers to the city's topography and the large mountains that surround it. The Santa Catarina River—dry most of the…

Average elevation: 563 m

Rio Caquetá

Colombia

Average elevation: 284 m

Manizales

Colombia > Caldas > Manizales

Manizales is the capital city of one of the smallest Colombian departments. The city is described as having an "abrupt topography", and lies on the Colombian Central Mountain Range (part of the longest continental mountain range, the Andes), with a great deal of ridgelines and steep slopes, which, combined…

Average elevation: 1,933 m

Mosquera

Colombia

Mosquera is a municipality of Colombia in the Western Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Mosquera is close to the capital Bogotá and is part of its metropolitan area. The urban centre of Mosquera is situated at an altitude of 2,516 metres (8,255 ft) on the Bogotá savanna. The…

Average elevation: 2,570 m

Puerto Colombia

Colombia > Atlántico

Average elevation: 31 m

Otún

Colombia > Risaralda > Dosquebradas

Average elevation: 1,427 m

Perímetro Urbano Armenia

Colombia > Quindío > Armenia

Average elevation: 1,481 m

Candelaria

Colombia > Atlántico

Average elevation: 30 m

Cali

Colombia > Valle del Cauca > Cali

Under Köppen's climate classification, Cali features a dry-summer tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification: As). The Western Mountain Range rises from an average of 2,000 m (6,562 ft) above sea level in the northern part of the city to approximately 4,000 m (13,123 ft) to the south. Because of…

Average elevation: 1,142 m

Poyare

Colombia > Guainía > Inírida

Average elevation: 94 m

La Mesa

Colombia > La Mesa > La Mesa

Average elevation: 971 m

Consacá

Colombia > Nariño > Consacá > Consacá

Average elevation: 1,929 m

Cundinamarca

Colombia > Cundinamarca

Average elevation: 1,589 m

Norte de Santander

Colombia

Average elevation: 638 m

Nariño

Colombia

Average elevation: 789 m

Santander

Colombia

Average elevation: 876 m

Meta

Colombia

Average elevation: 693 m

La Guajira

Colombia

Average elevation: 206 m

Guaviare

Colombia

Average elevation: 345 m

Guainía

Colombia

Average elevation: 156 m

Tolima

Colombia

Average elevation: 1,089 m

Bolívar

Colombia

Average elevation: 464 m

Caquetá

Colombia

Average elevation: 494 m

Casanare

Colombia

Average elevation: 591 m

Cesar

Colombia

Average elevation: 424 m

Arauca

Colombia

Average elevation: 579 m

Quindío

Colombia

Average elevation: 1,005 m

Atlántico

Colombia

Average elevation: 138 m

Putumayo

Colombia

Average elevation: 816 m

Vichada

Colombia

Average elevation: 152 m

Huila

Colombia

Average elevation: 954 m

Vaupés

Colombia

Average elevation: 163 m

Boyacá

Colombia

Average elevation: 851 m

Risaralda

Colombia

Average elevation: 861 m

Nare

Colombia > Antioquia

Average elevation: 1,588 m

San Francisco

Colombia > Cundinamarca

Average elevation: 2,351 m

Caldas

Colombia

Average elevation: 1,540 m

Antioquia

Colombia

Due to its geographical isolation (as it is located among mountains), Antioquia suffered supply problems. Its topography did not allow for much agriculture, so the city became dependent upon trade, especially of gold and gin for the colonization of new land. Much of this trade was due to reforms passed after a…

Average elevation: 614 m

Chocó

Colombia > Chocó

Average elevation: 477 m

Valle del Cauca

Colombia

Average elevation: 798 m

Tena

Colombia > Cundinamarca

Average elevation: 1,347 m

Chapinero

Colombia > Bogota Capital District > Chapinero

Average elevation: 2,812 m

Bogota Capital District - Municipality

Colombia

The city is located in the center of Colombia, on a high plateau known as the Bogotá savanna, part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes. Its altitude averages 2,640 meters (8,660 ft) above sea level. Subdivided into 20 localities, Bogotá has an area of 1,587 square…

Average elevation: 2,183 m

Patía

Colombia > Cauca > Patía

Average elevation: 1,246 m

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