Turbaco
Sign in to saveTurbaco is a municipality in the Bolívar Department of Colombia. It is located about 20 km southeast of Cartagena de Indias and is one of Bolívar's most organized municipalities. Turbaco is known for its famous "Fiesta de Toros" (Bulls' feast) in December to celebrate the new year.
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Vinony's link graph records 73 inbound references to Turbaco, and connects out to Cartagena, Colombia and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm2nd, across 4 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Municipalities of Bolívar Department.
Vinony links it to 25 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Turbaco
- Settlement.nickname
- Los Tira Piedra
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Turbaco.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Turbaco Plaza, Church of Santa Catalina
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Turbaco (Bolívar).svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Colombia - Bolívar - Turbaco.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the municipality and town of Turbaco in the Bolívar Department of Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Colombia
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Colombia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bolívar Department
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Guillermo Torres
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 202
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Colombia
- Official name
- Turbaco
- Demonym
- Turbaquera
- Country
- Colombia
- Located in
- Bolívar Department
- Continent
- South America
- Population
- 115000
- Area
- 185
- Elevation
- 128
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Official website
- www.turbaco-bolivar.gov.co/index.shtml
- Image
- Turbaco, Bolívar, Colombia - panoramio.jpg
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- Commons category
- Turbaco
- inception
- 1510-00-00
- native label
- Turbaco
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Encyclopedic overview
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Turbaco is a municipality in the Bolívar Department of Colombia. It is located about 20 km southeast of Cartagena de Indias and is one of Bolívar's most organized municipalities. Turbaco is known for its famous "Fiesta de Toros" (Bulls' feast) in December to celebrate the new year.
Juan de la Cosa was mortally wounded here in 1510, before Pedro de Heredia subjugated the area in 1533.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turbaco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
4 mapped locations