Gramalote
Sign in to saveGramalote is a Colombian municipality and town located in the department of North Santander. Currently, the complete destruction of the town is considered imminent due to massive mudslides brought about by unprecedented flooding that most of Colombia has undergone.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- town
- Settlement.name
- Gramalote
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Gramalote2010-12.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 245px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Skyline of Gramalote
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Gramalote.svg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Escudo de Gramalote.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Norte de Santander - Gramalote.svg
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- 200px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Map of Gramaote in the Norte de Santander Department.
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- Country
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- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Norte de Santander
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Angel Enrique Ibarra Montañéz
- Settlement.established_title
- Foundation
- Settlement.established_date
- 1857
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Gramalote is a Colombian municipality and town located in the department of North Santander. Currently, the complete destruction of the town is considered imminent due to massive mudslides brought about by unprecedented flooding that most of Colombia has undergone.
Its average temperature is 23 °C and its height of 1040 meters above sea level. Prior to the 2010 Colombian floods it had a population of 7853 inhabitants. It was founded twice, first in 1857, the second time in 1883, in less than a kilometer south of the original site.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gramalote” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations