Tamalameque
Sign in to saveTamalameque is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Cesar. It was originally the site of a Chimila settlement, Thamara. Tamalameque is located on the right bank of the Magdalena River and borders Chimichagua and Pailitas in the north, Pelaya in the east, La Gloria in the south and in the west the departments of Bolívar (El Peñón) and Magdalena (El Banco).
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Vinony's link graph records 49 inbound references to Tamalameque, and connects out to Cesar Department, Colombia and agriculture.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm2nd, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1544 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Municipalities of Cesar Department and Populated places established in 1544.
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Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.official_name
- Tamalameque
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Tamalameque (Cesar).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Cesar - Tamalameque.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 200px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Tamalameque in the Department of Cesar
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Caribbean
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Cesar
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- José Ricardo Aguilar(2016-2019)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 29 September 1544
- Settlement.founder
- Lorenzo Martín
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 511.31
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Cesar Department
- Area
- 511.31
- Elevation
- 28
- Official website
- tamalameque-cesar.gov.co/index.html
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- Tamalameque
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Encyclopedic overview
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Tamalameque is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Cesar. It was originally the site of a Chimila settlement, Thamara. Tamalameque is located on the right bank of the Magdalena River and borders Chimichagua and Pailitas in the north, Pelaya in the east, La Gloria in the south and in the west the departments of Bolívar (El Peñón) and Magdalena (El Banco).
== History == Tamalameque was first visited by the Bavarian conquistador Ambrosius Ehinger in 1531. The first conquest expedition into the interior of Colombia, led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada passed through Tamalameque in 1536. The local Chimila resisted heavily against the conquistadors.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tamalameque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations