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Salamina is a town and municipality in the Colombian department of Caldas.It is located north of the department and has a township called San Felix. It was declared a national monument and historic heritage of mankind.
Landscape around San Félix, Caldas, where the formation is found. The Valle Alto Formation (Spanish: Formación Valle Alto, Jva) is a geological formation of the Central Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The formation is composed of shales, sandstones and conglomerates and dates to the Late Jurassic period.
San Félix may refer to: Isla San Félix, one of the Desventuradas Islands, off the coast of Chile; San Félix District, a district of Chiriquí Province, Panama San Félix, Chiriquí, a corregimiento in San Félix District, Panama; San Felix River in San Félix District, Panama; San Félix, a village in Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina
Map of Colombia Bogotá, Capital of Colombia Medellín Cali Barranquilla Cartagena Cúcuta Santa Marta This article lists cities and towns in Colombia by population, according to the 2005 census. A city is displayed in bold if it is a capital city of a department .
The San Félix–San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests are a biome located on the small oceanic archipelago known as the Desventuradas Islands [2] [3] The islands form part of the ocean territory of Chile, and are located 850 km from the coast of Chile, and about 750 km north of the Juan Fernández Islands. Due to their remote nature and ...
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa wrote in 1579 that "they are now called after St. Felix and St. Ambor (i.e. Felix and Nabor)". However, the name of the martyr Ambor (Nabor) became confused with that of the more famous bishop Saint Ambrose (San Ambrosio). [8] [9] It is, probably, one of these islands that Captain John Davis struck one night in 1686 ...
The region San Juan del Cesar was inhabited by Arhuacos indigenous tribe, led during that time by a Cacique named "Marocazo". It was founded on June 24, 1701 by Captain Salvador Felix Arias Pereira with the name of Villa of San Juan Bautista, over Mount Yiyirigak by the Cesar River. Arias-Pereira was in a mission to "pacify" the indigenous ...
The Oca–Ancón Fault System (Spanish: Falla Oca-Ancón) is a complex of geological faults located in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela near the Caribbean Sea. The fault system is of right-lateral strike-slip type and extends for an approximate length of 830 km (520 mi).