Calamar is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
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and municipality located in the
Bolívar Department, northern
Colombia. The town is situated on the
Magdalena River at the entrance of the
Canal del Dique.
Calamar was founded in the republican period, under the government of the general Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera . The first inhabitants arrived in the year 1840, settled in the site that today is called Calamar (initially denominated Gamarra), in an extensive plain between the swamp of the Blacks and the Grande river of the Magdalena.
References
External links
Calamar official website
Municipalities of Bolívar Department
Populated places established in 1840
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