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Santa Marta Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Santa Marta) is a bay located in the Caribbean Sea, in northern Magdalena Department of Colombia. Its waters bathe the city of Santa Marta, the country's second port in the Caribbean. [1] In the vicinity of the bay is the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, which is the highest intertropical mountain in the world ...
Santa Marta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌsanta ˈmaɾta]), officially the Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta (English: Historic, Cultural & Tourist District of Santa Marta), is a port city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia.
Exports mostly pass through the Caribbean ports of Cartagena and Santa Marta, while 65 percent of imports arrive at the port of Buenaventura. Other important ports and harbors are Bahía de Portete, Leticia, Puerto Bolívar, San Andrés, Santa Marta, and Turbo. Since privatization was implemented in 1993, the efficiency of port handling has ...
Category: Port cities in Colombia. ... Santa Marta; T. Tumaco This page was last edited on 31 March 2013, at 21:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (Spanish for Large Marsh of Saint Martha) is the largest of the swampy marshes located in Colombia between the Magdalena River and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It has an area of 4,280 square kilometres (1,650 sq mi) and belongs to the outer delta system of the Madgalena River. [ 2 ]
Port cities and towns in Colombia (1 C) Pages in category "Ports and harbours of Colombia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Santa Marta ...
Republic of Colombia Huila: 1910 Province of Neiva 1610 Crown of Castile La Guajira: 1965 Province of Riohacha 1789 Kingdom of Spain Magdalena: 1824 Province of Santa Marta 1533 Crown of Castile Meta: 1959 Intendancy of Meta 1905 Republic of Colombia Nariño: 1910 Province of Pasto 1823 Republic of Colombia Norte de Santander: 1910
It is located in Playa Salguero, in Santa Marta, [4] and is named after José Benito Vives de Andréis, a well-known local politician involved different aspects of the city's development. [5] Their institutional motto "Colombia 50% sea" refers to the extensive jurisdictional maritime area the country has. [6]