San Juan Nepomuceno is a town and municipality located in the

Bolívar Department Bolívar () is a department of Colombia. It was named after one of the original nine states of the United States of Colombia. It is located to the north of the country, extending roughly north–south from the Caribbean coast at Cartagena near ...

, northern

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

. It is named after

Saint John of Nepomuk John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (; ; ) ( 1345 – 20 March 1393) was a saint of Bohemia (a western part of what is now the Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts st ...

Notable residents

Mayerlis Angarita Mayerlis Angarita Robles is a human rights activist. After her mother disappeared in Colombia's civil conflict, her father went into exile. Angarita has worked for women in the victims of conflict and founded an organization called Narrate to Live ...

was born here in about 1980. She has won awards for her leadership on women's rights and she has been a mayoral candidate. Artist

Gabriel Sierra Gabriel Sierra (born 1975) is a Colombian contemporary artist. His work combines aspects of fine art, design, and architecture. Sierra lives in the capital city of Bogotá. Biography Gabriel Sierra was born in 1975 in San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolí ...

was born in 1975 in San Juan Nepomuceno.

References

Municipalities of Bolívar Department {{Bolivar-Colombia-geo-stub