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El Retén

Colombian municipality of the department of Magdalena
Administrative Area Municipality Of Colombia Q547081

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Colombia
Inception
1913[5]
Official website
www.elreten-magdalena.gov.co[7]
Native label
El Retén[11]
Official name
El Retén[10]

Location

Country
Colombia[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 10.611°, -74.268°[6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Magdalena Department[2]

Population and size

Area
268.0[13]
Elevation above sea level
22.0[12]
Population
18,417, 19,345[8][9]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 18,417 · 19,345 GeoNames 18,809 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC−05:00[4]
More facts +3
Website
www.elreten-magdalena.gov.co
Located in
Magdalena Department
Coordinates
🗺️ 10.611°, -74.268°
🏷️ Also known as
en El Retén en El Retén Magdalena es Gentilicio: Reteneros "pata pelá" fa ال رتن ja エル・レテーン ja エル・レテン ru Эль-Ретен tr El Reten (belediye) tr El Retén (belediye) tr El Reten belediyesi tr El Retén belediyesi uk Ель-Ретен zh 埃爾雷滕
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
El Retén.png ↗
DANE code
47268
Freebase ID
/m/02pzl7d
GeoNames ID
9609551
OpenStreetMap relation ID
11890330
Who's on First ID
421173415

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🔗 Connections
People born here 2
Jorge Julio Rocha, Fidel Bassa
Country 1
Colombia
Instance of 1
municipality of Colombia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Magdalena Department
Located in time zone 1
UTC−05:00
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Summary

El Retén is a municipality of Colombia[1].

Related Entities

Colombia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . WikiMapia. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . dane.gov.co. dane.gov.co. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . sitios.dane.gov.co. sitios.dane.gov.co. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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