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Santa Marta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌsanta ˈmaɾta]), officially the Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta (English: Historic, Cultural & Tourist District of Santa Marta), is a port city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia.
The Santa Marta páramo has an area of 129,499 hectares (320,000 acres). It covers the upper levels of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the north of Colombia. [1] This is a roughly triangular massif with its north side parallel to the Caribbean sea, the southwest side facing the swamps of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta and the southeast side facing the Serranía del Perijá mountains ...
Topographic map of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Several peaks in the Sierra Nevada are intervisible with Cerro Paramillo , a 3,730 m (12,240 ft) peak [ 1 ] in Antioquia Department . This implies a theoretical direct line of sight of just over 500 km (310 mi), reported to be the longest between any two points on the surface of the Earth.
4.1 Location map templates. 4.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Colombia Santa Marta. 1 language.
The Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, is the biggest and by far the most important marsh in the department of Magdalena and one of the most important marshes in the country. It is located in the northwest of the department and is separated from the sea by a very thin margin of land, only a few meters away.
Santa Marta Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Santa Marta) is a bay located in the Caribbean Sea, in northern Magdalena Department of Colombia. Its waters bathe the city of Santa Marta , the country's second port in the Caribbean.
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated mountain range with the foot at the coast and the highest peak reaching 5,770 m (18,930 ft). This creates different habitat types, such as marine and coastal ecosystems, mangroves , and different types of forests on the mountain slopes.
Ciudad Perdida (Spanish for "lost city"; also known as Teyuna and Buritaca-200 [1]) is the archaeological site of an ancient city in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia, within the jurisdiction of the municipality of Santa Marta. This city is believed to have been founded about 800 AD.