San Marcos is a town in
Antioquia department
Antioquia () is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part o ...
in
Colombia
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. It is approximately 175 miles (282 km) north of
Medellín
Medellín ( ; or ), officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín (), is the List of cities in Colombia, second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia Departme ...
, in the heart of Colombia's
coffee
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-growing region.
San Marcos is located at . The symbol for its
airport
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is ''SRS''.
Populated places in the Antioquia Department
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