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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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Port cities in Colombia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Santa Marta; T. Tumaco This page was ...
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
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.