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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.
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 ...
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]
Rivers of Colombia. Seaports handle around 80 percent of international cargo. In 2005 a total of 105,251 metric tons of cargo were transported by water. Colombia's most important ocean terminals are Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast and Buenaventura and Tumaco on the Pacific Coast. Exports mostly pass through the ...
14 Colombia. 15 Cuba. 16 Cyprus. 17 Denmark. ... Port of Buenaventura; Port of Santa Marta; Cuba. Havana Harbor; Cyprus ... Virginia Port Authority, Virginia
Magdalena (Spanish pronunciation: [maɣðaˈlena]) is a department of Colombia with more than 1.3 million people, located to the north of the country by the Caribbean Sea.The capital of the Magdalena Department is Santa Marta and was named after the Magdalena River.
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 ...
Most of the immigrants settled in the main urban centers or trade port towns such as in Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Cartagena, Monteria, Sincelejo, Mompós, Santa Cruz de Lorica, El Banco, etc. The two most populous indigenous ethnic groups are the wayuu in the Guajira Peninsula and the Arhuacos and Koguis.