Colón may refer to:
Places
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Colón, Entre RÃos
Colón is a city in the . It is located in the east of the province, on the western shore of the Uruguay River, and has about 23,000 inhabitants (). It lies opposite Paysandú, Uruguay, to which it is linked across the river by the General Artigas ...
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Colón Department, Córdoba
Colón Department is a department of Córdoba Province in Argentina.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 171,067 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Jesús MarÃa, which is located from Buenos Aires.
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Colón Department, Entre RÃos
The Colón Department (in Spanish, ''Departamento Colón'') is an administrative subdivision (''departamento'') of the province of Entre RÃos, Argentina. It is located in the center-east of the province, beside the Uruguay River
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Colón, Buenos Aires
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Colón, Nariño
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Colón, Putumayo
Colón is a town and municipality located in the Putumayo Department, Republic of Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Car ...
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Colón Department (Colombia)
Colón Department was one of the departments of Panama State
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Ciudad Colón
Colón, known as Ciudad Colón is a district and the head city of the Mora canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica. It is famous for its warm climate, proximity to nature and its surrounding mountains, folkloric traditions, horse riding, ...
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Colón, Cuba
Colón is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. The municipality has an area of and a population of about 71,000. The city proper, with a population of about 44,000, is the third-largest of its province.
History
The town wa ...
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Colón, La Libertad
Colón is a municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
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Colón Department (Honduras)
Colón is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. It was created in 1881. The departmental capital is Trujillo, and the other main city is Tocoa. Trujillo was the site of the first Catholic Mass on the American mainland, held ...
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Colón, Querétaro
Colón is a town in Colón Municipality of the State of Querétaro, Mexico. It is the only one in the country named after Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón, in Spanish). It's the state's third largest municipality, with 815 square kilomete ...
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Colón, Panama
Colón () is a city and seaport in Panama, beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. Originally it was l ...
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Colón Province
Colón () is a province of Panama. The capital is the city of Colón. It covers an area of 4,575.5 sq.km, and the latest estimate of population (for 2019) is 294,060.Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica y Censo, Panama.
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This province h ...
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Plaza Colón, in Mayagüez
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Plaza de Colón (Madrid)
Plaza de Colón (''Columbus Square'', in English) is located in the encounter of ChamberÃ, Centro and Salamanca districts of Madrid, Spain. This plaza and its fountain commemorate the explorer Christopher Columbus, whose name in Spanish was Cris ...
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Colón (Metrovalencia)
Colón ( ca-valencia, Colom, mostly referred as ''Colón'') is a metro station of the Metrovalencia network in Valencia, Spain
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Colón Centro y Noroeste
Colón Centro y Noroeste is a '' barrio'' (neighbourhood or district) of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Location
It borders Lezica / Melilla to the west and northwest, Colón Sudeste / Abayubá to the east and northeast, Peñarol / Lavalleja to the sout ...
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Colón Sudeste
Colón Sudeste–Abayubá is a composite ''barrio'' (neighbourhood or district) of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Location
This barrio borders Lezica–Melilla and Colón Centro y Noroeste to the west, Canelones Department to the northwest and north, Mang ...
, barrio of Montevideo
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Colón, Uruguay, village in
Lavalleja Department
Lavalleja () is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Minas. It is located in the southeast of the country, bordered to the north by the department of Treinta y Tres to the east with Rocha, to the south with Canelones and Maldonado, and to ...
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Colón, Venezuela
Colón is a town in the Venezuelan Andean state of Táchira. This town is the shire town of the Ayacucho Municipality and, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, the municipality has a population of 48,982.
Demographics
The Ayacucho Municipal ...
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Colón Municipality, Zulia Colón may refer to:
Places
;Argentina
* Colón, Entre RÃos
* Colón Department, Córdoba
* Colón Department, Entre RÃos
* Colón, Buenos Aires
;Colombia
* Colón, Nariño
* Colón, Putumayo
* Colón Department (Colombia)
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* Ciu ...
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Zulia State
Zulia State ( es, Estado Zulia, ; Wayuu language, Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the States of Venezuela, 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest popu ...
Football teams
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Club Atlético Colón
Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe (), commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe , is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the First Division of the Argentine football league system, the Argentine Primera Divisià ...
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Colón Fútbol Club Colón may refer to:
Places
;Argentina
* Colón, Entre RÃos
* Colón Department, Córdoba
* Colón Department, Entre RÃos
* Colón, Buenos Aires
;Colombia
* Colón, Nariño
* Colón, Putumayo
* Colón Department (Colombia)
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, a Uruguayan club
Other uses
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Colón (surname) Colón is a Spanish surname, comparable to the Italian and Portuguese Colombo, or English surname Columbus. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bartolo Colón (born 1973), Dominican baseball pitcher
* Carlos Colón, musician, member of The D ...
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Colón (currency)
The colón (₡) refers to two Central American currencies:
* the Costa Rican colón (CRC), used in Costa Rica since 1896
* the Salvadoran colón (SVC), used in El Salvador from 1892 until 2001, when it was replaced by the American dollar
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Costa Rican colón
The colón (plural: ''colones''; sign: ₡; code: CRC) is the currency of Costa Rica. It was named after Christopher Columbus, known as ''Cristóbal Colón'' in Spanish. A colón is divided into one hundred céntimos.
Symbol
The symbol for th ...
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Salvadoran colón
The colón was the currency of El Salvador from 1892 until 2001, when it was replaced by the U.S. dollar during the presidency of Francisco Flores. The colón was subdivided into 100 centavos and its ISO 4217 code was SVC. The plural is "''colon ...
, former currency of El Salvador
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Preludio a Colón'', a musical composition by
Julián Carrillo
Julián Carrillo Trujillo (January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a Mexican composer,Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). "Carrillo (Flores), Nabor" on ''Mexican Political Biographies, 1935–1993: Third Edition'', p. 121. . conductor, violi ...
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Teatro Colón
The Teatro Colón (Spanish: ''Columbus Theatre'') is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic. According to a survey carried out by the acousti ...
, Buenos Aires, Argentina
See also
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The Colóns (disambiguation) The Colóns may refer to:
*The Colóns (2002–2010) - the professional wrestling tag team of Carlito and Primo
*Primo and Epico
Primo and Epico Colón are a Puerto Rican professional wrestling tag team. The team, composed of real-life cousins ...
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Colon (disambiguation)
Colon commonly refers to:
* Colon (punctuation) (:), a punctuation mark
* Colon (anatomy), a major part of the large intestine, the final section of the digestive system
Colon may also refer to:
Places
* Colon, Michigan, US
* Colon, Nebraska, ...
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Cologne (disambiguation)
Cologne (German: ) is a city in Germany.
Cologne may also refer to:
Places France
* Cologne, Gers, a ''commune'' in the Département of Gers
Germany
* Cologne (region), a governmental district of North Rhine-Westphalia
* Electorate of Cologne, ...
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